How can I creat a mialbox for Mutt?

[Bas van Gils]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:09:32PM +0800, YangPeng Ou wrote:
> I install the Mutt on my computer with Ubuntu Breezy yesteday.  When I open
> it first ( $mutt), the program ask me for whether I creat directory Mail, I
> agree. However, the program report that there is no /var/mail/p
> exiting(error2) So I creat a directory /var/mail/p, and open Mutt again, but
> it report /var/mail/p is not a mailbox...  How can I deal with it?

Hi,

as others have explained on this list already, /var/mail is not a place you
want to tinker with as a regular user. There are several reasons for this,
which are not very interesting for the time being. The thing to remember is:
mutt looks at /var/mail/ by default untill you tell it to look elsewhere.

Now we come to the issue of configuring mutt. Seth's post (with message id
<ead5210f0601190010ib89a512ud21f57511cd8fd1 at mail.gmail.com>) can help you with
that. You probably also want to figure out how to use a mail fetching tool
(such as fetchmail) to actually get mail to your machine. I know from
experience that this can be tricky if you have to figure it all out for the
first time. I've written a small howto for configuring mutt with fetchmail and
maildrop (and also gnuput):

  http://osiris.cs.kun.nl/~basvg/misc/howto.html

Perhaps this 'll help you get started.

Good luck,

  Bas

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