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Re: Mutt: How to find new mail in mult. mailboxes? [SOLVED]



On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:20:27AM +0800, desiderata@softhome.net wrote:
| On 11:10 Mon 01 Sep?, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

| > The mail must be new mail since the change. Also, don't forget you need to
| > add the "path" for the mailbox. So it would look something like this:
| > 	mailboxes ! +graig +IN-seneca +IN-uniwebdev

| That must be it :) the '!' and the '+' beside the mailbox. I see the 'N'
| now(after pressing <tab>), Thanks a lot :)

It's a good idea to understand what each syntactical item means.  The
mailbox "!" is your inbox.  You can specify that with the 'spoolfile'
parameter.  It defaults to /var/mail/$USER (or something like that,
which is often correct on a unix system).  The "+" (or "=", which I
tend to use) means start the path with the 'folder' paramter (often
set to ~/Mail or something like that) and look for the mailbox there.

-D

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