Re: Debian mutt-ng_0.0+20050831-1_i390.deb

* Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@xxxxxxxx> [Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 05:38:28PM 
+0200]:

> > > Why are your reading your mail in /var/spool/mail?

> > Because that's where the mailbox is on his system?

> Right, but it is just a spooldir with unreliable user rights. It is
> recommended to sort local mail in $HOME/"whatever you want". Tools
> like procmail or getmail or maildrop or ... are very useful to do
> that.

Yes, I do use getmail to fetch my mail and procmail to sort it. I only
read in /var/spool/mail the very few messages that procmail does not deal
with. 

I could ask procmail to send those remaining messages to a $HOME/ box,
the idea had not come to my mind :-) I'll think of it...

-- 
Philippe Berini