On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:29:59PM +0000, Américo Rocha wrote: | Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y): | | what's this ? any ideas ?
When you leave your $spoolfile (your inbox, usually /var/mail/$USER) mutt asks you if you want to move the messages you have read into $mbox. These configuration variables are set in ~/.muttrc. You must have $mbox set to =~/Maildir. $folder is the variable that tells mutt where your mail folders reside and defaults to $HOME/Mail, thus $mbox expands to "/home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir". Obviously the tilde is in the wrong place because of the leading '=' in $mbox (in mutt and elm, and maybe others, '=' is a shorthand notation for your default folder location, settable in mutt via the $folder variable). Read 'man muttrc' or the mutt manual on mutt.org for details on how to configure mutt the way you want. BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where did that come from? -D -- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27