Re: mutt mail dir and enviroment variables

[Michael Tatge <Michael.Tatge@xxxxxx>]

* On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 RYAN vAN GINNEKEN (rmvg@xxxxxxx) muttered:
> #mutt
> i get an empty /var/mail/user mailbox
> i use Maildir and my mail box is /usr/home/user/Maildir
> so if i execute this command
> #mutt -f /usr/home/user/Maildir
> everthing works fine and i can read my mail
> so how do i set mutt to read this mailbox instead of  /var/mail/user

set the evironment variable MAIL to /usr/home/user/Maildir or set mutt's
variable spoolfile=/usr/home/user/Maildir

HTH,

Michael
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