Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile ~/INBOX ?
On 6-02-2009, at 11h 06'55", Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote about "Re: How can I
get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile ~/INBOX ?"
>
> I have my maibox in file located in $HOME/Mail by simply setting the
> MAIL variable. I use tcsh so this goes in my .login:
>
> setenv MAIL $HOME/Mail/Inbox
>
> for bash you may need to have this in .profile or similar:
>
> MAIL=$HOME/Mail/Inbox
> export $MAIL
>
> Then, in my .procmailrc config file, I also set the default to the
> same file. Here is the head of my $HOME/.procmailrc file:
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #make sure it exists
> Mail=$MAILDIR
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox #completely optional
> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
> EGREP=/bin/egrep
> FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
>
> :0
> * ^From .*@some string.*
> $DEFAULT
>
>
> The first setting tells mutt (and other applications) were to look for
> new e-mails. The second tell were the mail should be delivered.
>
>
You could, of course, replace Inbox with Inbox_`hostname` on all
computers to avoind loosing mail.
Ionel