* Sven Burgener in "Re: folders and mutt" dated 2000/06/19 20:33 wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:25:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Put all your mail somewhere like a ~/mail directory; then tell > > procmail (or an exim filter) to put inbox mail in ~/mail/inbox, and > > your other folders are stored as files in ~/mail. You can subdivide > > folders into groups by using subdirectories. > > Done so. I also added the following to my .procmailrc: > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/mbox > > Now, as mutt reads $MAIL by default, I would like to know how to > change this behaviour. * man 5 muttrc | spoolfile | Type: path | Default: "" | | If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt | cannot find it, you can specify its location with this variable. | Mutt will automatically set this variable to the value of the | environment variable MAIL if it is not set. > > 'c' in mutt changes from one folder to another. Have a look at the > > 'mailboxes' .muttrc command to designate several folders as ones in > > which you expect to receive incoming mail, then hitting 'c' will > > select the next folder with new mail by default. > > For this, I have the following in my .muttrc: > > mailboxes $HOME/Mail/mbox > mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-user > mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-isp > mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-firewall > mailboxes $HOME/Mail/debian-user-de You can also specify this in your .muttrc: set folder=~/Mail mailboxes ! +mbox +debian-user +debian-isp +debian-etc ... > Funnily tho, when hitting <TAB>, I get a "listing" of the _directory_ > ~/Mail. This way I also see my procmail logfile which I don't want to > see when I browse through my mails; besides I didn't add it to my > mailboxes in .muttrc... Isn't this weird or am I just doing something > fundamentally wrong here? :) You can save your procmail logfile into a .procmail directory off your $HOME: PROCMAILDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PROCMAILDIR/procmail.log You can also do this little trick in your .procmailrc: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEBIAN=$MAILDIR/debian :0: * ^X-Loop: debian-.+@lists.debian.org * ^X-Loop: debian-\/[^@]+ $DEBIAN/$MATCH To automatically split any debian-*@lists.debian.org emails to $HOME/Mail/debian/* Procmail has a lot of flexibility and if you want I'll send you my procmail rules which do neat things like eliminating duplicate messages based on Message-ID headers and fix archaic PGP message formats (---BEGIN PGP MESSAGE--- ... ---END ...---) > I get to like mutt more and more every day. Me too. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL++++$ P+>+++ L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger aclark@ghoti.org for GPG public key http://ghoti.org/
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