Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 18:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2004-10-10 at 21:15 +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > OK, the question is whether to create /home/<user>/Mail if it doesn't
> > exist
> >
> > The error is that /var/mail/<user> does not exist - i.e. the user has
> > received no mail.
> >
> > try touching that file and restarting mutt
>
> I don't use Mutt, I don't understand it (I tried). However, as they say it
> is like "Pine on sterorids", it might have a similarity with Pine.
>
> The first time you start Pine it uses '/var/mail/username' for its default
> mailbox (leaving email there, marked as read). However, if previously to
> Pine you tried plain 'mail', the last creates a mailbox in
> '/home/username/mbox'; when Pine is started the first time this way (ie,
> after 'mail'), it reads from the file '/home/username/mbox' instead. I
> think it may read from '/var/mail/username', as well, but copy emails over
> to home - not sure of this, as I use procmail and mail is never left in
> '/var/mail'.
>
> If mutt has a similar behaviour, depending on which email program you
> started first, it might explain why it may work erratically with some
> users.
>
> Also, the kmail documentation talks about some strange interactions
> between mutt and kmail, related with lockfiles. I haven't read it
> carefully, as it doesn't apply to me: but it is there.
>

Thanks man, I'll look into this one a bit more. I'm thinking of reinstalling 
Mutt from scratch after assuring I have deleted the configuration files and 
of course trying the touch command which someone replied with, and I'll try 
that out. Thanks again,

-Allen.
> --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos Robinson