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Re: How can I stop mutt asking me about "~/Mail"?



On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:38:15AM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Please PMFJI.
> 
> I do NOT  have  ~/Mail directory set up.
> I do have MAIL=~/Mail in my environment.
unset $MAIL 
> I also have 
> set folder=~\Mail in my /etc/mutt/muttrc 
> and nothing except source that file and color directives in ~/.muttrc.
> 
> When I start Mutt, I get
> "/home/lba/Mail does not exist, create it (YES,n)
> I answer yes or just ENTER and a /home/lba/Mail directory is created as 
> expected.
> However Mutt says /home/lba/Mail is not a directory even though it exists 
> with permissions 700 and owner lba.
> 
> I've removed /home/lba/Mail several times and restarted Mutt with the above 
> results.
> 
> Something is missing but I don't know what.
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
> 
> Larry 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 May 2004 23:02:32 +0800, mahua wrote:
> 
> >add the line by yourself
> >On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:31AM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:23:44AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> >> > What does your ~/.muttrc have listed for "set folder=",
> >> > '/home/m/miles/Mail' ???
> >> 
> >> There is no "set folder ..." in my .muttrc; ~/Mail appears to be some sort 
> >> of
> >> default.
> >> 
> >> -Miles
> >> -- 
> >> .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
> >> 
> >
> >-- 
> >Time and tide wait for no man !
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
> 
> 
> 

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