Re: mutt and ~/Mail

On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:13:13 -0600, sk8r-365 wrote:
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> mutt asks every time it starts to create a directory "Mail", which is
> pretty useless for all mail ends up in ~/mbox by default. Plus,
> generally I don't keep mail - it's system mail only. Also, I like things
> tidy. Allowing an used directory to be created is wasteful. Yes, I know,
> it's not much but I don't care for it. Having read the man page and
> unsuccessfully searching for a solution to stop mutt from trying to
> create ~/Mail on the Web, I thought maybe someone in the news groups had
> found a suitable answer. Please advise.[/color]

I just hide mine. From Muttrc

set folder="~/.Mail"

Similarly,

# Location of read & saved mail
set mbox="~/.mbox"

# Location of copies of sent mail (Bcc:)
set record="~/.sent"

On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:40:58 -0600, sk8r-365 wrote:
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> Is "set folder="~/.Mail"" in your /etc/Muttrc?[/color]

Perhaps I should have clarified that but the capital "M" should have
sufficed. Yes, /etc/Muttrc.
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> Not mine. In fact, none
> of the above are. Read all of /etc/Muttrc.d/* and going over the 4382
> lines of 'man muttrc' I didn't see an option. Or, are you referring to
> ~/.muttrc?[/color]

You will not find those in Debian's abbreviated version of /etc/Muttrc.
You will, however, find the information in the mutt documentation. See
/usr/share/doc/mutt/html

sk8r-365 <sk8r-365@sk8r.debian.lenny.invalid.org> writes:
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>
> Thanks for writing, Dave.
>
> Is "set folder="~/.Mail"" in your /etc/Muttrc? Not mine. In fact, none
> of the above are. Read all of /etc/Muttrc.d/* and going over the 4382
> lines of 'man muttrc' I didn't see an option. Or, are you referring to
> ~/.muttrc?
>
> --
> sk8r-365
> "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very
> fast." - Thomas Jefferson[/color]

You could really put it anywhere you want; usually, the only difference is that
the config files in /etc/ are global and the ones in your home directory
with a preceding . are for that user only. Additionally, the ones in
/etc/ usually overrule the ones in ~.