The mbox variable can also be used for automatic moving of read emails. For example I am by default putting read email in Archive folder for each specific account and this is specified by different mboxe. Then I delete emails that I will *never* need again.
You can also check the move variable for this setup - it is set to yes in my muttrc -- Nikola On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:56:24PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > I was just looking at changing some of my muttrc settings and, as a > result, looked in the documentation for the mbox variable. It says:- > > mbox > > Type: path > Default: "~/mbox" > > This specifies the folder into which read mail in your `` $spoolfile'' > folder will be appended. > > So, what good is it? If one sets spoolfile then there's nothing more to > do is there and mbox is redundant. Or am I missing something obvious? > > ... or does it mean that mail will actually be *moved* from my spoolfile > to mbox as I read it? As it is I have:- > > set mbox=~/Mail > set spoolfile=~/Mail/In/inbox > > and as far as I can tell the mbox setting doesn't do anything at all. My > mail is delivered by a custom script to ~/Mail/In/inbox and various other > places which are specified in the mailboxes setting in muttrc. Does > even spoolfile add anything to this? > > > -- > Chris Green
