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wol
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Installing 1.4rc2, following Desktop Configuration Guide.
postfix delivers mail to /root/.maildir but
mutt wants to look in /var/mail/root
mutt seems to ignore anything I put in a /root/.muttrc
I can set a softlink in /var/mail, but I seem to be missing something
obvious in the mutt setup. Any suggestions?
TIA
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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You need to change your mbox type to maildir. Put this in your ~/.muttrc
or /etc/mutt/Muttrc:
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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I know this is months old, but there's another solution that might help someone trying to troubleshoot by following this thread. I had this problem and could only resolve it be defining
MAIL environment variable in your .bashrc
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export MAIL=$HOME/.maildir
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Apparently, mutt reads this variable and overrides what's in its config, and this variable can be set elsewhere to the spool path when you log on.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| jkcunningham wrote: | I had this problem and could only resolve it be defining
MAIL environment variable in your .bashrc
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export MAIL=$HOME/.maildir
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Apparently, mutt reads this variable and overrides what's in its config, and this variable can be set elsewhere to the spool path when you log on.
-Jeff |
I used the export command above to change the $MAIL variable, but whenever I load mutt, it complains that my /home/username/.maildir/ is not a mailbox . I've not set up fetchmail and procmail yet, but I don't think this problem is related to that.
For some reason I put maildir in my USE flags when I set the machine up. I thought I'd need it, but I'm not sure if I do. Now I can't really figure out how to get mutt to work, and will likely have issues setting up procmail.
Is there something obvious I'm missing?
Thanks,
Dave
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jkcunningham
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Having maildir in your use flags enables the ability, it doesn't affect other abilities. You can get that error message if mutt is expecting a mailbox in a different format. What is your mbox_type set to in .muttrc?
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dkaplowitz
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| jkcunningham wrote: | Having maildir in your use flags enables the ability, it doesn't affect other abilities. You can get that error message if mutt is expecting a mailbox in a different format. What is your mbox_type set to in .muttrc?
-Jeff |
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set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder=~/.maildir
set spoolfile=~/.maildir/
set record=~/.maildir-sent/
unset mbox
set move=no
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That's why I think it's odd that mutt is complaining. I've not played with it in a couple days though. This weekend I should get some more time to look at it.
Thanks for the reply.
Dave
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