Re: HELP! Mail program suggestions

[Ian Peters <itp@gnu.org>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:36:05PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote:
> While on the topic of mutt, I've recently switched from pine and I love it,
> but the only thing I don't like is that it keeps moving my read mail (granted
> after asking me--but being used to pine, I always hit 'qy' to exit) to ~/mbox.
> Is there any way to force it not to do that or at least to move it to
> ~/mail/mbox?

If you don't want it to move the mail, add this to your .muttrc:

set move=no

If you want it to move read mail to ~/mail/mbox, add this to your
.muttrc:

set mbox=~/mail/mbox

If you want it to move read mail to ~/mail/mbox and not ask you about
it, add this to your .muttrc:

set move=yes
set mbox=~/mail/mbox

If you want more information, I suggest you give reading the
documentation another go.  99.99% of all mutt questions are answered
in the mutt manual, /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz by default.  Jut sit
down and read it, or at the very least read through the section on
configuration variables.  It'll give you a much better idea of
everything mutt can do than getting random tidbits of advice here and
there.

-- 
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