* s. keeling <keel...@nucleus.com> [2013-01-02 10:26:23 -0700]: > Hi. Long time. :-) > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) # Debian testing/wheezy. > > Background, I used mutt for years locally, dumping mail into ~/Mail > via POP. Now, I've recently discovered that my ISP allows me IMAP > access, so I'm trying to resurrect my old mutt config. The problem > is, I can't seem to get rid of mutt's belief that mail here's based > around ~/Mail (mbox) instead of my new plan, ~/mail (maildir). > > I've been reading (re-reading) mutt docs for days, have replaced all > instances of "Mail" in my configs with "mail", yet still "s" (save), > among others, wants to put it in "~/Mail" somewhere. > > Please suggest how I might tell mutt to think ~/mail instead of ~/Mail. > > > BTW, I'm getting mail via OfflineIMAP which is syncing local ~/mail > with ISP's ~/Inbox. Gkrellm is running "/usr/bin/offlineimap -u Basic" > which appears to be working well. Only mutt's "misbehaving." It's > not a big problem, but it's annoying. > > Stuff: > > set folder="~/mail" > set mbox="~/mail" > set mbox_type=maildir" > > Thanks. :-) Love mutt. I wish I was half as smart as it is.
What is the setting for $spoolfile and also for the $MAIL environment variable? -- Primary Key: 4096R/1D31DC38 2011-12-03 Key Fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
