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Old 05-18-2015, 06:31 AM   #1
Jean-Luc Besson
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Question Setting up Mutt - Mailboxes [SOLVED]


Hi Everyone,

I'm currently setting up Mutt on my freshly installed Debian Jessie. First time for me to work with Mutt. So far, I managed to fetch mail (POP3 with fetchmail -vk; setup via .fetchmailrc) from my hosting provider and I was also able to send email (SMTP with set smtp_url= and set smtp_pass= from within my .muttrc)

Right now I'm stuck with managing mailboxes. I have set folder=~/Mail in .muttrc but although I have sent and received messages (see above) the directoy is still kind of empty:

Code:
user@host:~/Mail$ ls -la
total 16
drwx------  2 user user 4096 May 18 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 user user 4096 May 18 12:12 ..
-rw-------  1 user user 1239 May 18 11:24 outbox
-rw-r--r--  1 user user   35 May 17 18:51 signature
Questions:

Where can I find my inbox/mbox? Where are the mails, which I see in Mutt, stored? I believe I need an answer to that question before I look into filtering my mail (procmail; haven't looked into it so far).

Can someone help me? Thanks.
JLB

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I just solved my question. Unfortunately echo $MAIL did not return anything. So I started investigating and found my inbox in /var/spool/mail/user, where user is the inbox file:
Code:
user@host:/var/spool/mail$ file user 
user: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines

Last edited by Jean-Luc Besson; 05-18-2015 at 09:52 AM.
 
Old 05-18-2015, 08:57 PM   #2
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My summer project last summer was to learn how to use Mutt. I did a podcast about the experience at HPR. http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1727
I've grown to quite like Mutt.

The Gentoo docs contain a great write-up for persons new to using Mutt.

http://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resour...e-to-mutt.html
 
  


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