On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > 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. > OK, thanks. I think that mbox is probably fairly redundant for me (though I see it does have some uses), I'll keep using spoolfile though.
-- Chris Green
