On Sunday 10 October 2004 17:32, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* lexuscars
[10-10-04 16:15]: Read the original message, Patrick. The problem was not *him* as you were so quick to point out. I'm going to compose myself here and not type what I really want to, but this is typical of most of your responses, berating the OP.
Say what's in your mind. I did not berate him. I would almost bet that *all* his broken installations will run if he runs mutt as: mutt -F /dev/null
Broken installs? How the hell do you break an install of an application that was installed by default? I didn't break anything, muttrc is created when you run it. For the 8th time, I install SUSE Linux (Any version) or Slackware (Any version) or any other OS, including Free BSD, and after the install is finished, I update, and then boot up for the first time. I then type mutt on my terminal, and it pops up asking to create the directory /var/.... I pointed out what directory it creates I'm not typing it again.
He appears to be trying to use a ~/.muttrc which is causing problems. Mutt is solid and installs with very a safe configuration, else I would have problems with it myself. Mutt provides some of the *best* documentation available in all of linux. www.mutt.org has examples and points to *many* configuration examples.
When something will not work, one of the first things to try is a very bland configuration and then make *singular* changes to achieve what you want and/or expect.
The configuration has nothing to do with anything. I've stated very clearly that either it will create the file it needs, or it will not and I get errno2 or similar as an error saying the file / directory doesn't exist. It works, or it doesn't, and is usually one of the first things I do to the system other than online update.
You do not start with a sophisticated rc-file which may or may not have been build for *your* system, have problems and blame mutt.
I wasn't trying to blame a thing I tried seeing if anyone else had a problem like this and fixed it. As for slapping in the face someone who tried helping me... Heh, if you call telling me it's my fault it doesn't correctly work, and that I should answer questions you asked which I already had stated in my original post... If you call that help you have a terrific career ahead of you in Microsoft's support team.
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