Mutt and mailboxes
I've recently started using mutt remotely when I'm on campus to check
for email that Mozilla is automatically downloading to my Debian box at
home (I log in to my Debian box via ssh from Tera Term Pro on the
Windows machines on campus). The 'problem' is that when mutt launches it
automatically uses the mbox file at /var/mail/username. There is such a
file on my system but little email ever comes its way, hence I have no
interest in checking it. What I would like is to have Mutt default to
opening up Mozilla's mbox at
~/.mozilla/default/********.slt/Mail/pop.my.isp/Inbox . I can force mutt
to open it by using the -f (and, for safety's sake, -R) parameter with
that long filename, but I would prefer a quicker and more permanent
solution. I've also noticed that there is no .mutt or the like file or
directory in my home directory, which is somewhat perplexing.
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David P. James
4th Year Economics Student
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/
The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
-Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV
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