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Subject: Re: where environment variable MAIL was set?
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:07:35PM +0800, Zheng Tianyu wrote:

> Hi, All
> 
> My account name is airfish, after I sued to root, I found that the 
> environment variable MAIL remained MAIL=/var/mail/airfish. As a result,
> when I start mutt, it opens the airfish's mailbox. That's not what i
> desired. But I can't find where the MAIL is set. Should I unsetenv MAIL
> in my root's login file?

Or, you could just do a mutt -f /var/mail/root

////jerry
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