Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 05:11:17 +1000 From: andrew clarke <ozzmosis@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mutt Help Message-ID: <20071002191117.GA32593@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20071001005437.GA15279@bsd.remdog.net> References: <20071001005437.GA15279@bsd.remdog.net>
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Hi All...I am a newbie using Mutt, and I have Fetchmail running as
> daemon. Fetchmail is doing its job, periodically retreiving my pop3
> mail, but I am so far unable to find the correct entry for the
> .muttrc file which will result in Mutt automatically retrieving mail
> from fetchmail. Any help would be appreciated.
By default, Fetchmail will put your mail wherever $MAIL points to.
Usually this is in a file named /var/mail/username, where username is
your login name.
$ echo $LOGNAME
ozzmosis
$ echo $MAIL
/var/mail/ozzmosis
And by default, Mutt will look in the same place, as per muttrc(5):
spoolfile
Type: path
Default: ""
If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt can-
not find it, you can specify its location with this variable.
Mutt will automatically set this variable to the value of the
environment variable $MAIL if it is not set.
I use Fetchmail, Procmail, SpamAssassin, Mutt and Postfix quite
successfully here. :-)
Regards
Andrew
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