Someone kindly replied direct suggesting using
mutt -f ~/mail/INBOX as a test. That worked,however while trying to get a
mailboxes entry to work,switching from editor to mutt each time in another
tty, pine got the stitch and deleted all in my INBOX file!
So I lost your address. Whoever you are thanks for the help! I
have tried at least ten different enteries for 'mailboxes' and set
spoolfile=~/mail/INBOX without sucess.
The next move will be to save my existing mails to somewhere safe
and start up fresh,I guess that would mean remodelling my.procmailrc,maybe
screwing up the mail altogether. If so which .muttrc would be a reasonable
starting point.
Or give up on mutt!
Sorry if that sounds a bit negative but I'm getting past my useby
date and a bit grumpy this morning. Ideas welcome.
---russ---
