This one time, at band camp, Mark Copper said: > I'm want to set up e-mail on my Debian box and am having trouble with > basics. > > When I start mutt, I get an error message: > /var/mail/<myusername>: no such file or directory > > And indeed there is not. Should there be? Is this an exim or mutt or > simply a permissions thing? > > Thanks. > > Mark Send yourself a test message: mail -s "making a mailbox" <myusername>@localhost < any_text_file That will create the mailbox, unless you have any filtering going on, or use ~/Maildir or something. If you use Maildir, or filtering, tell mutt where the mailspool is in .muttrc HTH, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Gran | | |steve@lobefin.net | | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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