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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