Is there a way to change the ~/mbox
file where mailutils
's mail
program saves read mail and where mail -f
reads from to something else, like ~/.mbox
for example? I read that setting the MBOX
environment variable does this but I tried setting it to both ~/.mbox
and $HOME/.mbox
and neither did anything for me. For reference, I tried setting MBOX
both just by setting it in the current terminal session and by using the env
command, and neither worked.
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Please provide more detail on the situation, such as how/where you set the env variable MBOX. These may help though doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox– JoeFeb 27, 2020 at 4:33
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@Joe There, added some more info. I'm not sure if those links are relevant though since they're for Dovecot and I'm using mailutils, unless they're compatible or something?– tdearyFeb 28, 2020 at 0:05
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~/.mailrc is the configuration file you should be altering not ~/.mbox– JoeMar 2, 2020 at 6:58
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mailutils.org/manual/mailutils.html#Mail-Configuration-Files– JoeMar 2, 2020 at 6:58
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@Joe I wasn't trying to edit ~/.mbox, that's what I wanted to rename my user mailbox file to so it wouldn't be visible all the time, and I wanted to know if there were any config options that would let me do that.– tdearyMar 2, 2020 at 20:56
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In mailutils 3.14 the MBOX environment variable seems to work:
export MBOX=.fubar
will coax mail into saving your messages in ~/.fubar
.
Note: no directory specified here.
I keep a statement like this in my .profile
so it is the login environment.