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luri
Asked: 2011-02-15 04:33:19 +0800 CST

How to configure mail (mailutils) to use Maildir schema by default?

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When I type mail command, I get a "No mail for USER" answer, but there's indeed mail (it's in /home/USER/Maildir/new)

I guess it has something to do with the mailbox being in Maildir format, instead of mbox, but I don't know how to tell mailutils (specifically the mail command) which format to use.

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2 Answers

  1. Afaik "mail" utility checks mails at the location given with the MAIL environment variable. Try this command: MAIL=/home/USER/Maildir/ mail (for sure, replace USER with something meaningful & valid). If that works, it seems that you should set MAIL variable you can do it in your bash profile / rc file for example. You can check the content of your current MAIL variable with: echo $MAIL

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  2. To fetch mail from users home directory, use mail with -f option

     mail -f /home/USER/Maildir/
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