Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile

2009-02-08 Thread Josef Atmin
uot;fetch local and pop3 mail" Josef. On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:01:03PM +0800, bill lam wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2009, Josef Atmin wrote: > > Thanks for pointing that out. How would I do that? Set permissions to > > non-writable? > > Does any of the followings help? > $ man -k lock | grep "(1)" >

Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile

2009-02-08 Thread Josef Atmin
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:15:31AM +0800, bill lam wrote: > On Sat, 07 Feb 2009, Josef Atmin wrote: > > After having discovered macros I came up with the following solution for > > moving mail from /var/mail/jatmin to ~/INBOX. > > > >macro index,pager G "\

Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile

2009-02-07 Thread Josef Atmin
gt; ~/INBOX;\ echo -n > /var/mail/$USER;\ echo There has been local e-Mail!;\ sleep 2;\ for the time being to have some backup). However, it's ok for me. Cheers, Josef. On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:30:29AM +0100, Josef Atmin wrote: > > Hello mutt users, > > I am new

Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile

2009-02-06 Thread Josef Atmin
Thanks for the suggestions, but as far as I understand, they are all about how I can automatically forward my local mail to a mail file within my home directory. This is not what I want to do, because that would mean that the 'same' file, namely $HOME/Mail/Inbox, gets changed differently on my

How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile ~/INBOX ?

2009-02-06 Thread Josef Atmin
Hello mutt users, I am new to mutt and cannot figure out how to move mail from my local spoolfile /var/mail/jatmin (or /var/spool/mail/jatmin) to my mutt $spoolfile ~/INBOX when I press 'G' (or automatically). I need this for the following reason. Since I work in different cities, I use di