I have this in my .bash_profile: export MAILCHECK=0 MAILPATH=$MAIL for mbox in ~/Mail/*; do if [ "$mbox" != ~/Mail/sent ]; then MAILPATH=$MAILPATH:$mbox\?"Mail in [31m${mbox#~/Mail/}[0m" fi done export MAILPATH I know it only addresses a very small part of the problem.
.robin.