On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:
Hi All,
I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.
I much prefer getmail.
At any rate, you should probably set some sort of inbox in mutt.
I have my own page on mutt, that some folks find useful.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/mutt.html
Note that it's basically for mutt 1.5, and I think CentOS may still use mutt 1.4 (Though KB Singh had a 1.5 rpm, IIRC--in my case, I wound up building from source.)
Not sure how fetchmail works these days--with getmail, I hand it off to maildrop to do the sorting, but it also offers the option of just putting everything into /var/spool/mail or elsewhere.
Regardless, mutt usually offers to create a $HOME/Mail directory, but will also look in /var/spool/mail. Hit c as in change directory, and it will move around various places.
There is, if you're more comfortable with Pine, alpine, which I believe is pretty much the same thing. (Based entirely on hearsay, haven't used pine for years. )