I'm trying to set up my mail so that everything stays in /var/mail/user rather than being moved to home. I'm using mailutils 3.15
$ mailutils info sysconfdir SYSCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc Here is my conf file: /usr/local/etc/mailutils.conf mailbox { mailbox-type maildir; mailbox-pattern "maildir:///var/mail/${user}"; } mail { set hold=1; set keepsave=1; } $ mail --config-lint mail: opening configuration file /usr/local/etc/mailutils.conf mail: parsing file `/usr/local/etc/mailutils.conf' mail: finished parsing file `/usr/local/etc/mailutils.conf' mail: opening configuration file /home/simon/.mail mail: configuration file /home/simon/.mail doesn't exist However, when I send a test mail to myself and read it, it gets deleted from the system mailbox. Saved 1 message in /home/simon/mbox Held 0 messages in maildir:///var/mail/simon Also, mailutils not sure if the following is how things should be: mailutils creates an mbox folder in maildir format. simon@jupiter:~$ tree mbox mbox ├── cur │ ├── 1653937159.M691198P46987Q0.jupiter,a=O,u=1:2,S │ ├── 1653937223.M512550P47021Q1.jupiter,a=O,u=2:2,S │ ├── 1653997807.M976119P69692Q2.jupiter,u=3:2,S │ ├── 1654009289.M574298P92209Q3.jupiter,u=4:2,S │ ├── 1654009560.M533475P92239Q4.jupiter,u=5:2,S │ └── 1654009999.M700552P92288Q5.jupiter,u=6:2,S ├── new └── tmp 3 directories, 6 files Any ideas? Regards, Simon