I recently switched to mutt after using pine for a couple of years. I had
never really tried it before and the comments here persuaded me to give it a
shot. I also use procmail to filter my mail. Here's some things that I've
done over the past couple of days to make reading mail more pleasant:
- In /etc/login.defs, use this (see 'login' manpage):
#MAIL_DIR /var/spool/mail
MAIL_FILE mail/inbox
- In /etc/pam.d/login, use this (see PAM docs):
#session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv
session optional pam_mail.so dir=~/mail/inbox
- If you use ssh, make sure it's compiled to use "login" so $MAIL is set to
$HOME/mail/inbox. I used: "./configure --with-login; make; make install"
- In your ~/.muttrc:
set folder=~/mail
set mbox=+inbox
set record=+sent-mail
Mutt will now see that spoolfile == mbox and it won't ask you to move
messages anymore.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:49:52PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Thank you very much!! it worked fine!!
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:42:22PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:14:44PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Dear debianers
> > >
> > > I am using mutt as my MTA. When I move between different mailboxes mutt
> > > asks me the following question:
> > >
> > > move read messages to /home/chiappa/mbox? ([n]/y):
> > >
> > > I don't want to move anything because procmail takes care of the internal
> > > distribution of emails. How can I disable this annoying message?
> >
> > In ~/.muttrc:
> >
> > set move=no
> >
> > --
> > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
> > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
> > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
