From 1a26b8252a0ff93c5b7a9d39ae38d8c6b6696bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rocco Rutte Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:14:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Manual: verbosely document how the initial folder is determined, see #3189. --- ChangeLog | 11 +++++++++++ doc/manual.xml.head | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8691de12e..94a767749 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +2009-02-20 18:27 +0100 Rocco Rutte (3f57a654639d) + + * doc/manual.xml.head: Document address normalization. Closes #2430. + +2009-02-20 13:23 +0100 Rocco Rutte (e37e857afc14) + + * ChangeLog, headers.c: Simplify and fix Attach: header parsing + + With ee5e696a9d08 we would skip beyond the filename to look for a + description. This changeset fixes it. + 2009-02-20 13:05 +0100 Rocco Rutte (b3f6d86e94f7) * main.c: Set magic from -m before processing queries (-Q) or dumping diff --git a/doc/manual.xml.head b/doc/manual.xml.head index 1b8fa7202..982f310af 100644 --- a/doc/manual.xml.head +++ b/doc/manual.xml.head @@ -5199,6 +5199,24 @@ This normalization affects all headers mutt generates including aliases. + + +Initial folder selection + + + +The folder Mutt opens at startup is determined as follows: the folder +specified in the $MAIL environment variable if +present. Otherwise, the value of $MAILDIR is taken +into account. If that isn't present either, Mutt takes the user's +mailbox in the mailspool as determined at compile-time (which may also +reside in the home directory). The +$spoolfile setting overrides +this selection. Highest priority has the mailbox given with the +-f command line option. + + + -- 2.40.0