On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:42:46PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:07:13PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > > Without knowing the details of your setup, I don't know if you've > > configured it so that nothing ever ends up in /var/spool/mail/rland. I > > think the safest thing to do is to set MAILPATH to include both > > /var/spool/mail and whatever directory your custom inbox is in, so you > > don't miss anything. > > Good idea, found the setting in login.defs. I did a: > > MAIL_DIR /var/spool/mail > #MAIL_FILE .mail > MAILFILE /home/rland/muttmail/inbox > > ...hoping that this setting would duplicate the mail > sent to root, so that one day when I change my rland > inbox to another name and forget to update login.defs, > no mail will be lost for a program that might choose > to use the MAIL env variable instead of using port 25. > > Unfortunatly man login.defs does not mention this duplication > and I have no idea which programs use $MAILDIR to test. > > But, just noticed when logging in as root I get a: > "configuration error - unknown item 'MAILFILE' > (notify administrator)". > > This is awful.
Shouldn't you keep it as MAIL_FILE? BTW scratch MAILPATH advice. I've just experimented with it and mutt's ignoring it. Seems it only recognises it as a compiled-in default. mutt -v lists quite a few of these in a format which made me think it was possible to override them with an environment variable. My mistake. > At least _someone_ using a older mua as I do - that nice!... It's there, it works... end of story! Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
