From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 21:42:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B9A16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B856643FBF for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rmvg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOH00A9REBQ68@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:38:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml6so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.150]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOH009LMEBQNY@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:38:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from shaw.ca (h68-146-233-172.cg.shawcable.net [68.146.233.172]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOH00I7BEBP0W@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:38:14 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:38:19 -0700 From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3FB85ECB.9050600@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) Subject: mutt maildir and enviroment variables X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:42:45 -0000 Ok i need some help with Mutt but not really mutt more just Freebsd in general I run freebsd 4.8 something mutt version 1.4 something postfix 2.0.0.16 bincimap version 1.2.3 when i execute the command #mutt i get an empty /var/mail/user mailbox i use Maildir and my mail box is /usr/home/user/Maildir so if i execute this command #mutt -f /usr/home/user/Maildir everything works fine and i can read my mail so how do i set mutt to read this mailbox instead of /var/mail/user i tried the .muttrc .mailrc .bashrc .chsrfile in my users home directory i tried the .cshrc .profile file in the / directory please can someone tell me where to set this variable so that i only have to do it once and it will work for all the new users i create as well please p.s. a general overview on making these type of setting and which files to make them in would be much appreciated as my system is getting messy and i cant remember all the changes i have made or to what files i have made them.