From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 8: 8:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA73237B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA93443; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:08:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3A6B0979.59CCED72@nisser.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:08:25 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Fritchman Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAIL set by whom? References: <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com> <20010120222545.A31387@databits.net> <3A6A63A5.94C2BC86@nisser.com> <20010120234048.A32228@databits.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . > >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