How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile ~/INBOX ?
Hello mutt users,
I am new to mutt and cannot figure out how to move mail from my local
spoolfile /var/mail/jatmin (or /var/spool/mail/jatmin) to my mutt
$spoolfile ~/INBOX when I press 'G' (or automatically).
I need this for the following reason. Since I work in different
cities, I use different computers in different domains. I synchronize
my home directories with unison (a great tool btw). I receive external
email via a pop server and local mail via /var/mail/jatmin. For
security reasons I want the local mail to stay local and not forward it
to my pop server. I also cannot forward it to my ~/INBOX file, because
of the synchronization issue (I would get modified files on different
machine and would have to merge the different versions of INBOX each
time I synchronize my home directories). I also want to avoid to set
the mutt $spoolfile to /var/mail/jatmin because I need all my current
mail in my home directory, again because of the synchronization issue,
and I don't want to visit /var/mail/jatmin each time I want to check
whether I have new local mail.
So I would like to configure mutt such that the 'G' command not only
fetches mail from the pop server but also from /var/mail/jatmin. Is
there any way I can do this?
I have found nothing in the documentation. The question came up
on the mailing list previously, but the solution suggested was to
set $spoolfile to /var/mail/jatmin and maybe $mbox to ~/INBOX. But this
is not what I want, because it is quite cumbersome. I also know
about the 's' commant to save a mail in a different mbox, but that is
cumbersome as well. I want an elegant solution.
Best regards,
Josef.