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RE: open other's maildir folders



Gads, how embarassing!  Works perfectly.

Thanks to both David Champion and Patrick Shanahan for the solution!!

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx]On
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:33 PM
To: Mike Scott
Cc: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: open other's maildir folders


* On 2003.10.24, in <NDBBKMPICKPFJNFCPEHFCENIFCAA.mscott@xxxxxxxx>,
*       "Mike Scott" <mscott@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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

Mutt doesn't support any shorthand notation for reaching other users'
mailboxes. You need to use the full path.

# mutt -f /var/spool/maildir/spambin

or

# cd /var/spool/maildir
# mutt -f spambin

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