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Re: open other's maildir folders



* Mike Scott <mscott@xxxxxxxx> [10-24-03 14:04]:
> 
> I've been surfing for hours to no avail. My MTA is Exim, using
> maildir format.  Mail is kept in one main parent directory, not in
> user's home directories (more common??). The mail store is
> /var/spool/maildir/[user]
> 
> I just installed Mutt 1.4.1i.  What I need to do is work with the
> "mailbox" for user spambin, while logged in as root.
> 
> I've tried:
>  MAIL=/var/spool/maildir/root
>  MAILDIR=/var/spool/maildir/root
>  # mutt -m Maildir -f spambin
> 
> and:
>  MAIL=/var/spool/maildir/spambin
>  MAILDIR=/var/spool/maildir/spambin
>  # mutt -m Maildir -f spambin
> 
> Mutt exits with the error "spambin: No such file or directory (errno
> = 2)". 'spambin' already has mail (you can guess) and Exim has
> created the appropriate dirs (cur, new, tmp) within
> /var/spool/maildir/spambin.

Try giving the full pathname to spambin, /var/spool/maildir/spambin.
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