More Mutt, Root Mail, No Mailbox Stuff

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Just finished installing gutsy and up to date. After
bootup and logging into terminal, messages say I have
mail(there should be as there were many messages from
the upgrade that root should get) so I open mutt and
the status bar at bottom say "no mailbox". However,
there are two such mailboxes in /var/mail and
/var/spool/mail.
This is a long standing issue with me as most will
remember and I would like very much to get it resolved
very much so. I elected to use the maintainers conf on
everything so as not to carry over any feisty setup
conf. I still suspect this issue involves elements of
not having a FQDN, Muttrc and main.cf but after much
googling and reading, I haven't a clue what to do.
Would appreciate any help in the solution.
TIA,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net