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Re: MAIL environment variable.



Jools Smyth <jools@tvis.co.uk> writes:

> previously on my system when i su'd between users and run mutt the
> MAIL env vcariable would be setup to the user i su'd to so the mail
> spool file could be found. Some package upgrade must have changed
> something as this no longer works.

Start a login shell ("su - user"); see man su.

	moritz
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