I was just looking at changing some of my muttrc settings and, as a
result, looked in the documentation for the mbox variable. It says:-
mbox
Type: path
Default: "~/mbox"
This specifies the folder into which read mail in your `` $spoolfile''
folder will be appended.
So, what good is it? If one sets spoolfile then there's nothing more to
do is there and mbox is redundant. Or am I missing something obvious?
... or does it mean that mail will actually be *moved* from my spoolfile
to mbox as I read it? As it is I have:-
set mbox=~/Mail
set spoolfile=~/Mail/In/inbox
and as far as I can tell the mbox setting doesn't do anything at all. My
mail is delivered by a custom script to ~/Mail/In/inbox and various other
places which are specified in the mailboxes setting in muttrc. Does
even spoolfile add anything to this?
--
Chris Green
