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