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Re: mutt question



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 (chiappa@centroin.com.br) 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



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