~/.mailrc changes

[usafitz]

well, believe it or not, I have another question

when I use the 'mail' command, my system looks at /var/spool/mail/user1 to find the mail. However, I've configured postfix and dovecot to ~/Maildir

now can I create .mailrc in my user's profile to have mail look in the new directory?

thanks again!

---------- Post added at 12:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:06 AM ----------

for who this might quickly help, here's what I put in .mailrc ...it worked

: -==x==x=(0)=x==x==- : cat .mailrc
set MAIL=/home/user1/Maildir

set folder=mail

[stevea]

AFAIK 'mail' and 'mailx' cannot handle maildir formats, only MBOX (better check that).
This is where you'd want dovecot feeding those flies via pop3 or imap to modern client like
thunderbird or evolution.

MBOX files are very fragile - one inserted character or lost block and you have a problem.

---------- Post added at 05:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:26 AM ----------

What do you know ... mail/mailx can do maldir

       folder (fold) The folder command switches to a new mail file or folder.  With no arguments,  it
              tells  the  user  which  file he is currently reading.  If an argument is given, it will
              write out changes (such as deletions) the user has made in the current file and read  in
              the new file.  Some special conventions are recognized for the name.  # means the previ‐
              ous file, % means the invoking user's system mailbox, %user means user's system mailbox,
              &  means  the invoking user's mbox file, and +file means a file in the folder directory.
              %:filespec expands to the same value as filespec, but the file is handled  as  a  system
              mailbox  e. g.  by  the  mbox and save commands.  If the name matches one of the strings
              defined with the shortcut command, it is replaced by its long form and expanded.  If the
              name  ends  with  .gz  or  .bz2,  it  is treated as compressed with gzip(1) or bzip2(1),
              respectively.  Likewise, if name does not exist, but either name.gz or name.bz2  exists,
              the  compressed  file  is  used.   If name refers to a directory with the subdirectories
              `tmp', `new', and `cur', it is treated as a folder in maildir format.   A  name  of  the
              form