Re: OT: Mutt and specific mbox files...

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@chem.tue.nl>]

On  7-04-2003, at 18h 18'54", Michael Perry wrote to debian-laptop about "Re: OT: Mutt and specific mbox files..."
> > 
> > What about that command line option "-f <mailbox>"?  I haven't been
> > able to make that work though.  Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to
> > how this is supposed to work.
> > 
> I am able to point mutt at a specific mailbox using the command, 
> 
> "mutt -f /home/mperry/mail/readmail" 
> 
> I can also point mutt at another existing folder that I
> wish it to read.
> 
> If you just run "mutt -f" with no mailbox name it will show you all the
> options it takes.

If you set this:

set folder="~/Mail"

then you can specify the files inside that folder using the "=":

"mutt -f=Inbox" or "mutt -f =Inbox"

would mean "mutt -f /home/mperry/Mail/Inbox"


Ionel