Re: fetchmailrc - polling local mail
On 09/30/07 21:07, Breen Mullins wrote:
> * Joseph <syscon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-09-30 21:48 -0600]:
>
>>
>> On my system all local mail: from root, warnings from UPS, hylafax are
>> being forwarded to me: joseph so I have a mail box in /var/mail/joseph
>> In evolution all I had to do is to configure it to pull mail as: "local
>> delivery" and magically all these emails were being forwarded to me.
>
> The mutt way to do this is to tell mutt where your system mail is located:
>
> set spoolfile=/var/mail/joseph
> mailboxes /var/mail/joseph
>
> and your normal inbox will appear in the mailbox list. No need to
> go to the effort of moving it somewhere else.
>
> Breen
> --
> Breen Mullins
> Menlo Park, California
Thanks for the hint, I never thought about it, that you can display mbox and
mailbox at the same time.
Oh well, we always learn something new and simple :-)
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#Joseph