Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:57:09AM -0700, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> [snips]
> > 
> > <snip>
 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"
> :-)
> 
Are you absolutely sure. I found examples, either
googling or in the muttrc.examples, that had some with
and without uppercase M.

> If you renamed it to lower-case, everything has gone
> and the poor mutt is confused !
> 
I'll mv it back to lowercase to be sure.

> By the way, mutts don't have bugs, they have fleas -
> see
> 
This cracked me up. I needed the comic break.  Thanks.
> man mutt
> 
Have read it and like all linux manuals they more
confuse me than help but will review it again.  BTW,
there is no reference to any /var*mail dir in the
Muttrc file in /etc.  Shouldn't there be?
> ;-)
> 
> Peter
> 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net