Re: exim, mutt, fetchmail

[Mark Copper <m.copper@wayne.edu>]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Stephen Gran wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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,

Yes, it does.  Thank you and thank you for your patience with such a silly
question.

Mark