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

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> 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 . 

Yes, the -f etc was never needed until the gutsy
upgrade and I've not modified /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.
> 
Don't have a ~/.muttrc as mentioned earlier and I see
nothing in Muttrc pointing to anyplace but WDIK, not
much. I know main.cf is not funtionally correct
accoring to mail.log and mail.err and maybe you will
have comments on the previous reply which listed the
revelent info. Hope so anyway. Thanks for keeping this
going,


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net