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 -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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