Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

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Jerry Van Brimmer

3 Mar 2002 3 Mar '02

05:52

Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get he same error message. On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 dan radom wrote:

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set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox and mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*`

and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i.

dan

* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) wrote:

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SuSe 7.3, Mutt 1.3.22.1i (2001-08-30)

Mutt newbie here, starting to be a frustrated Mutt newbie. The docs say that Mutt should work "out-of -the-box". Well, mine don't. I installed the one off of the SuSe DVD, which doesn't create me a .muttrc file. So, I went to the Mutt home page, then to the muttrc file generator page and got my initial muttrc file. I have entered my personal data into the file. But, I cannot get mutt to read my mail. In my home directory I have:

/home/jerry/Mail /home/jerry/Mail/inbox /home/jerry/Mail/suse-linux

Here's a snippit from my .muttrc file:

# Folder and Mailbox ###################################################### set write_inc = 10 set sort_browser = alpha set record = "" set pipe_split = no set pipe_decode = no set pipe_sep = "\n" set move = ask-no set mask = "!^\\.[^.]" set mbox = "~/mbox" set mbox_type = mbox set mh_purge = no set confirmappend = yes set confirmcreate = yes set copy = yes set default_hook = "~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s)" set fcc_attach = yes set fcc_clear = no set folder = "~/Mail" set folder_format = "%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f" set force_name = no

The problem is, every time I start up Mutt it says: Mutt:-----(no mailbox) No such file or directory

I have downloaded my mail with fetchmail into my suse-linux box. How do I get Mutt to read it?

Thanks for advice, Jerry

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Ben Rosenberg

3 Mar 3 Mar

05:50

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 21:44]: ->Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get he same error message. -> ->On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 ->dan radom wrote: -> ->> you want ... ->> ->> set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox ->> and ->> mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*` ->> ->> and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i. I'm not sure I understand why one has to use this 'set mbox' .. I've never used it. Jerry, if you just use the .bashrc commands I told ya about it will work. You don't need to set it just in the muttrc. I'm not sure where the problem is coming from. I've setup quite a few people with Mutt at work and all I do is add 'MAIL=$HOME/Mail/Incoming' and change every instance of ben to their username. The three files I sent ya should work. What's the exact error your getting? -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

Anders Johansson

06:00

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

On Sunday 03 March 2002 06.50, Ben Rosenberg wrote: <snip>

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and change every instance of ben to their username.

Why not use $USER? //Anders

Jerry Van Brimmer

06:16

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

OK, when I use your .muttrc file modified for myself, I still get: /var/mail/jerry is not a mailbox. It seems that mutt is ignoring all of the pointers to the mail box in the rc file. On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 21:50:47 -0800 Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 21:44]: ->Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get he same error message. -> ->On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 ->dan radom wrote: -> ->> you want ... ->> ->> set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox ->> and ->> mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*` ->> ->> and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i.

I'm not sure I understand why one has to use this 'set mbox' .. I've never used it.

Jerry, if you just use the .bashrc commands I told ya about it will work. You don't need to set it just in the muttrc. I'm not sure where the problem is coming from. I've setup quite a few people with Mutt at work and all I do is add

'MAIL=$HOME/Mail/Incoming' Exactly "where" do I put this line? In the muttrc somewhere? and change every

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instance of ben to their username. The three files I sent ya should work. What's the exact error your getting?

-----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

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Ben Rosenberg

10:37

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 22:08]: ->OK, when I use your .muttrc file modified for myself, I still get: -> ->/var/mail/jerry is not a mailbox. -> ->It seems that mutt is ignoring all of the pointers to the mail box in the rc ->file. -> -> -> 'MAIL=$HOME/Mail/Incoming' -> ->Exactly "where" do I put this line? In the muttrc somewhere? -> In your shell . file like in your .bashrc or .zshrc :) -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

Jerry Van Brimmer

06:28

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

Ben, I received the following suggestion on the mutt-users list: set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox mailboxes ! +suse-linux After I put these two lines in the rc file, then Mutt opened up my inbox without any error message. My inbox happens to be empty at the moment so I didn't see any headers. However, in my Mail dir I also have a suse-linux mailbox into which I successfully downloaded some mail earlier today. How do I get Mutt to view that mailbox? In other words, how do I switch mailboxes. On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 21:50:47 -0800 Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 21:44]: ->Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get he same error message. -> ->On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 ->dan radom wrote: -> ->> you want ... ->> ->> set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox ->> and ->> mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*` ->> ->> and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i.

I'm not sure I understand why one has to use this 'set mbox' .. I've never used it.

Jerry, if you just use the .bashrc commands I told ya about it will work. You don't need to set it just in the muttrc. I'm not sure where the problem is coming from. I've setup quite a few people with Mutt at work and all I do is add 'MAIL=$HOME/Mail/Incoming' and change every instance of ben to their username. The three files I sent ya should work. What's the exact error your getting?

-----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

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Ben Rosenberg

10:39

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 22:19]: ->Ben, ->I received the following suggestion on the mutt-users list: -> ->set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox -> mailboxes ! +suse-linux -> ->After I put these two lines in the rc file, then Mutt opened up my inbox without ->any error message. My inbox happens to be empty at the moment so I didn't see ->any headers. However, in my Mail dir I also have a suse-linux mailbox into which ->I successfully downloaded some mail earlier today. How do I get Mutt to view ->that mailbox? In other words, how do I switch mailboxes. -> c then ? should do it..it does it for me. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

Roman Shakin

13:51

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

Ok, this is a muttrc file that I use it has only one mailbox setup but it also has some good ideas... It does need to be updated and such.. and if you want to use it you have to make it fit your system but once you get it all running it's very nice... --Roman PS: It's based on GPL so you can do anything you want. On Sun, Mar 03, 2002, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 22:19]: ->Ben, ->I received the following suggestion on the mutt-users list: -> ->set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox -> mailboxes ! +suse-linux -> ->After I put these two lines in the rc file, then Mutt opened up my inbox without ->any error message. My inbox happens to be empty at the moment so I didn't see ->any headers. However, in my Mail dir I also have a suse-linux mailbox into which ->I successfully downloaded some mail earlier today. How do I get Mutt to view ->that mailbox? In other words, how do I switch mailboxes. ->

c then ? should do it..it does it for me.

-----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

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Jerry Van Brimmer

15:30

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

That worked Ben. I was able to see the list of mailboxes. When I selected my suse-linux mailbox and press Enter, Mutt says: "/home/jerry/Mail/suse-linux is not a mailbox." Now what? I created these mailboxes in an xterm as user jerry, by doing "touch suse-linux", etc. On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 02:39:02 -0800 Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020302 22:19]: ->Ben, ->I received the following suggestion on the mutt-users list: -> ->set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox -> mailboxes ! +suse-linux -> ->After I put these two lines in the rc file, then Mutt opened up my inbox without->any error message. My inbox happens to be empty at the moment so I didn't see->any headers. However, in my Mail dir I also have a suse-linux mailbox into which->I successfully downloaded some mail earlier today. How do I get Mutt to view->that mailbox? In other words, how do I switch mailboxes. ->

c then ? should do it..it does it for me.

-----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

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Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

08:26

New subject: 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot (sic!) was: Re: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 dan radom wrote:

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you want ...

set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox and mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*`

and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i.

Could you please be more precise with what remote security exploit in 1.3.22i was? I searched high and low, and got only these: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-1784.html Mutt in version 1.2.5i has a buffer overflow which can be remotely exploited. Mutt home page (www.mutt.org) mentions: Mutt 1.2.5.1 and 1.3.25 were released on January 1, 2002. These releases both fix a security hole which can be remotely exploited. For more information, see the release announcement. Nothing about security holes in 1.3.22i. 1.3.22i is the latest version available from SuSE. And no security announcemnets. So, what's wrong in mutt 1.3.22i? -Kastus

Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

08:35

New subject: [SLE] 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot (sic!) was: Re: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

I hate to follow-up my own message, but... According to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/suse_advisory-1785.html mutt-1.3.22.1i-105.i386.rpm fixes that security exploit: mutt, a popular mail client for Linux-like systems, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that is remotely exploitable. We have added patches to the versions of mutt as shipped with the affected distributions to fix the problem. We recommend to install the update package for your product and to restart all running instances of mutt. We thank Joost Pol for reporting the problem to the makers of mutt. So, there is no need to grab mutt 1.3.27i, version 1.3.22.1i from SuSE is safe. -Kastus On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:26:44AM -0800, Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka wrote:

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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 dan radom wrote:

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you want ...

set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox and mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*`

and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i.

Ben Rosenberg

10:43

New subject: [SLE] 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot (sic!) was: Re: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

* Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka (kastus@tsoft.com) [020303 00:35]: ->I hate to follow-up my own message, but... -> ->According to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/suse_advisory-1785.html ->mutt-1.3.22.1i-105.i386.rpm fixes that security exploit: -> ->mutt, a popular mail client for Linux-like systems, is vulnerable to a -> buffer overflow that is remotely exploitable. We have added patches to -> the versions of mutt as shipped with the affected distributions to fix -> the problem. We recommend to install the update package for your product -> and to restart all running instances of mutt. -> We thank Joost Pol for reporting the problem to the makers of mutt. -> ->So, there is no need to grab mutt 1.3.27i, version 1.3.22.1i from ->SuSE is safe. SuSE tends to patch the same version # that was released on the CD's so as not to break dependencies. So the .22 version that SuSE has in the updates directory has been patched, but indeed 1.2.5i (1.2.5.1i was the fix) and anything at mutt.org below .25 is vunerable. So in a sense the person who suggested getting .27 wasn't wrong. Besides a quick ./configure --prefix=/usr and you have a new version over the old and it has many bug fixes..since the 1.3.X series is a development series and if one is going to run the development version..keeping up with bug fixes is a good thing..other wise why leave the stable release of 1.2.5.X :) -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka

16:16

New subject: [SLE] 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot (sic!) was: Re: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:43:32AM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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SuSE tends to patch the same version # that was released on the CD's so as not to break dependencies. So the .22 version that SuSE has in the updates directory has been patched, but indeed 1.2.5i (1.2.5.1i was the fix) and anything at mutt.org below .25 is vunerable. So in a sense the person who suggested getting .27 wasn't wrong. Besides a quick ./configure --prefix=/usr and you have a new version over the old and it has many bug fixes..since the 1.3.X series is a development series and if one is going to run the development version..keeping up with bug fixes is a good thing..other wise why leave the stable release of 1.2.5.X :)

That's a question to SuSE: why did the leave the stable 1.2.5 and included development 1.3.22 in 7.3 ? -Kastus

Tor Sigurdsson

19:23

New subject: [SLE] Re: My Mutt Won't Bark

The error message is regarding a missing /var/spool/mail/jerry ( or /var/mail/jerry... whichever your distro prefers. ) to read your suse-linux mailbox explicitly, try: mutt -f =suse-linux /etc/Muttrc should be sufficient as a default muttrc. You shouldn't need your own ~/.muttrc except you want some personal settings other than the system default. if you don't like the error message, try "touch /var/mail/jerry -tosi On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 05:52, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get he same error message.

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:24:24 -0700 dan radom wrote:

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you want ...

set mbox = ~/Mail/inbox and mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*`

and 1.3.22i has a remote security expliot. grab 1.3.27i.

dan

* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) wrote:

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SuSe 7.3, Mutt 1.3.22.1i (2001-08-30)

Mutt newbie here, starting to be a frustrated Mutt newbie. The docs say that Mutt should work "out-of -the-box". Well, mine don't. I installed the one off of the SuSe DVD, which doesn't create me a .muttrc file. So, I went to the Mutt home page, then to the muttrc file generator page and got my initial muttrc file. I have entered my personal data into the file. But, I cannot get mutt to read my mail. In my home directory I have:

/home/jerry/Mail /home/jerry/Mail/inbox /home/jerry/Mail/suse-linux

Here's a snippit from my .muttrc file:

# Folder and Mailbox ###################################################### set write_inc = 10 set sort_browser = alpha set record = "" set pipe_split = no set pipe_decode = no set pipe_sep = "\n" set move = ask-no set mask = "!^\\.[^.]" set mbox = "~/mbox" set mbox_type = mbox set mh_purge = no set confirmappend = yes set confirmcreate = yes set copy = yes set default_hook = "~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s)" set fcc_attach = yes set fcc_clear = no set folder = "~/Mail" set folder_format = "%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f" set force_name = no

The problem is, every time I start up Mutt it says: Mutt:-----(no mailbox) No such file or directory

I have downloaded my mail with fetchmail into my suse-linux box. How do I get Mutt to read it?

Thanks for advice, Jerry

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