Follow up Re: More Mutt, Root Mail, No Mailbox Stuff

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:31:52 +1100
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> 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.
[snips]
> 
> 3) Now run mutt, telling it to look in /var/mail/your-username
> 
> mutt -f /var/mail/your-username
> 

Actually, the "-f" should not be necessary, since mutt looks
in /var/mail/your-username by default, with the default /etc/Muttrc . 
If it looks somewhere else by default, then your ~/.muttrc is probably
pointing to the wrong place, or the global /etc/Muttrc has been altered.

Peter

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