Re: spoolfile and move clarification

[Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:33:11AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:13:47PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote:
> > Dear mutt community,
> > here is a snippet of my muttrc
> > 
> > set spoolfile=+inbox
> 
> If I do this, how do i tell procmail the default inbox has changed from
> /var/mail/daniel?
> I tried exporting $MAIL in .bashrc, but messages still got dropped in
> that old folder in /var/mail...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Daniel.

in .procmailrc

MAILDIR=$HOME/.muttmail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox/

and in getmailrc
I have

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/procmail

my /var/spool/mail is always empty

I wonder whether I used spoolfile at all because getmail directly
redirects mails to procmail...

Z