Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Sat Sep 1 19:36:38 UTC 2007


On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:51:30AM +0930, Rapael Morcha wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 05:08:42AM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:57:09AM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > 
> > [snips]
> > > 
> > > Well, the errors occur at the bottom of the mutt gui
> > > and I suspect it it just an artifact of the gui.  It
> > > does not have the leading /.  Also, I don't have a
> > > muttrc or .muttrc file according to locate command. I
> > > did find in /etc a Muttrc file which I probably copied
> > > from the /usr/share/doc*mutt*/examples docs, or
> > > whatever the path was and renamed it to muttrc. Read
> > > it twice and found no referenc to path
> > > /var/spool/mail/lchata. Other than the copy to /etc,
> > > I've never configured mutt and there was no default
> > > muttrc in the original install of mutt.
> > > dpkg-reconifgure mutt also takes a long time to run
> > > and has no output to select options.  Suspect it's a
> > > bug in mutt or am I missing somethin?
> > 
> > /etc/Muttrc is *supposed* to have an upper-case "M" :-)
> > 
> > If you renamed it to lower-case, everything has gone and the poor mutt is confused !
> > 
> > By the way, mutts don't have bugs, they have fleas - see
> > 
> > man mutt
> 
> :) The logic is that bugs only affect simple softwares and not highly sophisticated software such as mutt. Peter?

No doubt ;-)

... but truly, it's right there in man mutt, under "Bugs"

:-)

Peter




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