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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:08:25 +0100
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MAIL set by whom?
Message-ID:  <3A6B0979.59CCED72@nisser.com>
References:  <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com> <20010120222545.A31387@databits.net> <3A6A63A5.94C2BC86@nisser.com> <20010120234048.A32228@databits.net>

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Pete Fritchman wrote:
> 
> I assume you are executing bash as a login shell so it reads ~/.profile and
> ~/.bash_profile.  If you are, make sure between  ~/.profile and
> ~/.bash_profile you are only setting MAIL once, and to the correct value:
> 
>   export MAIL=~/Maildir
> 
> If you are su'ing to the user without typing "su - user" to make the
> resulting shell a login shell, you will have to put that line in ~/.bashrc.

Tx. Turns out a ssh bug tripped me up. I'll put it in /etc/profile,
neater then mucking with the skeletons and individual profiles. It's
a system thing anyway :).

> That's just for MH-style mailboxes.

Maybe, but it still makes me nervous <g>.

> >So where does that $MAILPATH enter things?
> 
> [this may not be 100% correct, it's after a 30-second look at src]
> If you don't define a default spool in your .muttrc, and you don't define
> HOMESPOOL (like, ~/Mailbox or something), mutt will look in
> $MAILPATH/$USERNAME by default.

Tx. I'll skip that var for now.

Roelof

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