Fwd: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:02:57PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> Well Ed, I sent root at ubuntu an email via mutt. It went
> just like every other time I used mutt to send mail,
> no errors, but mutt didn't show it in the listing even
> after closing and reopening mutt.  I don't claim to
> know much about mutt usage and may have done it wrong.
> BTW, sudo mail shows no mail for root and $mail shows
> no mail for user but I have user mail in mutt from
> fetachyahoo and I'm just as confused as ever.

Each application has a different idea of where to look for a default
mailbox. mail if probably looking in standard unix places like
/var/mail/$user (where system mail accounts typically have their
incoming mail spools before they get popped or routed elsewhere), and
mutt probably has created $HOME/mail/. 

After you send a mail to root at localhost, check the postfix
mail log file: "sudo tail /var/log/mail.log", and post the results.
That should give a hint on which way its going. 

-- 
Hal