Re: pointing to .muttrc in different location
On 2003-11-15, "Colin J. Raven" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Christian Schneider <strcat@xxxxxxx> [2003-11-15 19:51]:
> > Hi Colin,
> >
> > * Colin J. Raven (me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [2003-11-15 10:50]:
> > > I'd like to place my .muttrc in a slightly more private location, a
> > > subdirectory of $HOME I've called .mutt.
> > > How can I make mutt read its .rc file in the new location?
> > > Advice & Suggestions will be greatly appreciated
> >
> > Just start mutt. It will read ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc. See the
> > manpage for details (man mutt /FILES).
> > --
> I tried this by moving the .muttrc into $Home/.mutt then started mutt.
>
> It didn't work.
Read the above again. The second file is ~/.mutt/muttrc, not
~/.mutt/.muttrc--there is a dot in the directory name but not in the
file name.
Gary
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