Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:25:45 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAIL set by whom? Message-ID: <20010120222545.A31387@databits.net> In-Reply-To: <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com>; from roelof@nisser.com on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:01:07AM %2B0100 References: <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com>
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In csh, the default .cshrc (/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc), it's set:
set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
... could be changed to:
set mail = (~/Maildir)
++ 21/01/01 04:01 +0100 - Roelof Osinga:
>[...]
>:setenv=MAIL=/home/$/Maildir/,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
Remember, this is overidden in system-wide profiles (/etc/profile and
/etc/csh.cshrc) and user dotfiles (~/.[bash_]profile, ~/.cshrc, ~/.bashrc)
all depending on the shell the user logs in with.
What shell does the user have?
>[...]
>nl:~$ grep MAIL *
>nl:~$
Note that the '*' pattern won't catch dot files.
electron [292] % grep -i mail *
grep: No match.
electron [293] % grep mail .cshrc
set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
electron [294] %
>
>[...]
>PS I've read about:
>
>nl:~$ cat .mutttrc
>set mbox_type="Maildir"
>set mbox="$HOME/Maildir/"
>set spoolfile="$HOME/Maildir/"
>[...]
Yes, that should work too. See also:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.6
Regards,
-pete
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