On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:39:55PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 07Feb2018 22:37, kalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I usually use thunderbird and thus already have some experience with
> > e-mail, but what I got from trying to learn mutt is just depressing for
> > me.
>
> Ok, it sounds like mutt is presenting the local default UNIX mailbox on your
> system.
>
> If you are using Thunderbird then it is likely that either your mailbox is
> an IMAP service hosted at your ISP or at some place like Google Mail.
>
> Is this the case?
>
A few minutes gargling suggests that, at least on a previous ubuntu
version, thunderbird stored mail somewhere under ~/.thunderbird.
> Without some configuration, mutt looks in your local machine's mail system.
> It is likely that nothing is using that if it is a personal machine such as
> a laptop, so you have no local mail.
>
I've used mutt for many years, but before that I used pine - and
before that I read my mail in netscape. And that was all local mail
held somewhere in /home. So I suspect that Kalle also has past mail
stored in ~/.
As an aside, for a single user system, particularly where /home
might be shared by multiple linux systems (or in my case by
older/current systems), keeping mail in /var is unpleasant. To fix
that with new incoming mail I use fetchmail and procmail.
But yes, configuration is needed if mail is not kept in /var.
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