Re: sharing /var/mail/<username> with mutt and Evolution..
Am Mit, 2003-01-29 um 12.45 schrieb Kevin.Bewley@camr.org.uk:
>
> Hi,
> I have a problem with Evolution - I keep swinging from trees! :-)
>
> Seriously, using Debian 3.0r1 stable I've got mutt working beautifully
> picking up mail from my /var/mail/kevin mbox. When I installed Evolution
> and pointed it to this box and set it to 'use Unix mail spool file' it
> cannot get the messages out of the spool. While mutt still works perfectly.
>
> If I set evolution to Local mbox support it gets the mail out of the spool
> but doesn't leave it there so I cannot see it from mutt then, help! I think
> there must be some trick to getting Evolution to leave the mail in
> /var/mail/kevin or to have /var/mail/kevin act as my Inbox?
>
> Any one have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
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The option 'Standard-Unix-mbox-Spool' (or so) for receiving mails should
help you, I hope.
Regards
Peter
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