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. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson