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There are definitely some things you should look into when sending email to Hotmail/Yahoo.

First, the MSN Postmaster:

Sender Solutions

Then, the Yahoo! end:

Yahoo Postmaster

If your mail is not being delivered successfully to the major free email providers, read the above links very thoroughly.

Hope that helps.

What I do is set the MAIL environment variable to point to my mailbox. That way the setting applies to other programs (e.g. shells that show “you have new mail”). But you can do it from .muttrc as well:

set spoolfile = "/path/to/mailbox"

To start mutt showing a different mailbox as a one-off, run mutt -f /alternate/mailbox. Within mutt, type c to change to a different mailbox. After c, you can type the path to the mailbox, or you can use one of the shortcuts (see “Mailbox shortcuts” in the manual) such as ! to refer to spoolfile (or $MAIL) and =foo to refer to $folder/foo where $folder is defined in your .muttrc as

set spool = "/path/to/directory/containing/mailboxes"

If receive mail in several mailboxes and would like mutt to tell you when you receive mail in any of them, look up “Monitoring incoming mail” in the manual; basically you need to add this to your .muttrc:

mailboxes "/mailbox/to/watch" "/other/mailbox/to/watch"