Re: Mutt and Fetchmail dumb questions
"Debiandomain" <neutec@debiandomain.com> wrote:
>I just installed slink and then upgraded to frozen. It went ok I think but
>now I want to install fetchmail and mutt. I installed mutt and fetchmail and
>configured fetchmail and saved the file into my /home/user directory. When I
>try to start mutt I get an error /var/spool/mail/neutec: No such file or
>directory (errno=2) I have seen this before but in the past I have been able
>to get mutt to create my maiol box. But I cant remember. What will I need to
>do to get mutt to create a mail box for me. I checked and I dont have a
>folder in /var/spool/mail.
Just 'touch /var/spool/mail/neutec'. Mail folders just consist of all
the messages concatenated together, so a zero-length file is a valid
folder.
In any case, when you get mail the folder will be created. Don't worry
about it; it isn't a fatal error. (Though make sure that your MTA is
actually going to deliver mail to /var/spool/mail/$USER.)
>Next question. After installing fetchmail I need to make a fetchmail file.
>should this file be hidden and what premission should it have?
What do you mean by "hidden"? It should be called ~/.fetchmailrc, if by
that you mean dotfiles, and since it often contains POP/IMAP/etc.
passwords it should be mode 600 (-rw-------).
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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