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
The mbox variable can also be used for automatic moving of read emails.
For example I am by default putting read email in Archive folder for
each specific account and this is specified by different mboxe. Then I
delete emails that I will *never* need again.
You can also check the move variable
Chris Green wrote:
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?
Having an mbox in your home directory was more useful on shared systems
with quotas. Typically the spoolfile quota was fairly small
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
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?
Having an mbox in your home directory was more useful on
