[PLUG] Flag folders w/new mail under pine?

Rogan Creswick creswick at cs.orst.edu
Fri Aug 30 17:25:19 UTC 2002


On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:42:13AM -0700, Sandy Herring wrote:
> Did you use Mutt to post this? I don't see it in your X-headers, and your
> line length appears to be > 125 characters.

I did use mutt, with vi as my editor and it did not linewrap, and I didn't pay
enough attention to the line length (that's a task for today, get vi to wrap 
lines for in email..)


> 
> > One question though: I want to have mutt open my inbox with any new messages from the mail spool copied there automatically. 
> > It currently is opening my mail spool, then prompts me to copy read messages from the spool to mbox (which is not my inbox..). 
> > 
> > Any pointers would be great, I'm really not sure where to start to get this to happen (any search terms?).
> 
> This would be better handled by a procmail recipe. Simply set the DEFAULT
> environment variable to point at your mbox. You can then instruct mutt to
> use your mbox as your mail spool by setting `spoolfile' in your .muttrc to
> point to it... http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#spoolfile
> 

Thanks!

> Sandy
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