More Mutt, Root Mail, No Mailbox Stuff

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:33:59 -0800 (PST)
Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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.

Try this, perhaps:

1) Move your ~/.muttrc out of the way, if you have one ( your personal
muttrc, not the global one in /etc ) This is so that Mutt won't do its
usual lookups etc. as defined in that file. For instance:

mv ~/.muttrc ~/.muttrc.bak

2) Send root a test email

echo "hello root" | mail -s Test root

3) Now run mutt, telling it to look in /var/mail/your-username

mutt -f /var/mail/your-username

You should see mail there...

If not, then postfix is putting root mail in the wrong place.
In that case, I would re-run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix

and check your settings there.

Peter

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