Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Sep 1 20:29:05 UTC 2007
> 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
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