Chris Green wrote: > 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?
Having an mbox in your home directory was more useful on shared systems with quotas. Typically the spoolfile quota was fairly small compared to the home directory quota. Quotas aside, it can also be useful for archiving read mail. > ... or does it mean that mail will actually be *moved* from my spoolfile > to mbox as I read it? The $mbox setting is used by $move or by mbox-hooks, and allows you to move read messages out of your $spoolfile when changing to another folder or exiting mutt. > 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? Setting $spoolfile is a good idea. It controls the directory mutt looks in when it first starts, and sets the "!" mailbox shortcut. -Kevin
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