On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:16:19PM +0530, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: > > promail worked in the sense that i can see the inbox file in my > $HOME/mail directory, and can even view it's contents using vim. > but mutt refuses to open the file.if i rum "mutt -f mail/inbox" > from my home directory i get the message that mail/inbox is not > a mailbox file. >
There may be some error in your your .muttrc. Just check out the "set folder=" ... the default is Mail, it should be set to ~/mail if you intend using $HOME/mail as your mutt folder. > > so what i want to know is wether my method of using procmail is > screwing up somewhere, why is mutt not able to open that file, > Cannot comment unless you post your .procmailrc > > and if i do not use the 'mda "/usr/bin/procmail"' option in > fetchmailrc then i do not even know where my mail goes to since > /var/spool/mail/mario was not getting updated after running > fetchmail without the mda option. > This is unlikely, fetchmail by default will download mail to the mail spool (/var/spool/mail/username). You do not need procmail to be run at all. If you omit the MDA process, invoking mutt as "mutt" only will bring up all mail in /var/spool/mail/username. It will ask you if mails are to be saved in mbox set in your own .muttrc in the setting "set mbox=" at the time of quitting. The syntax for calling up procmail as MDA through .fetchmailrc is: mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" .. The -d switch is important for explicit delivery to local recipients. Just check this out. man procmail for details. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Single user mode booting under grub LOST #266 To enter single user mode under grub, press "e" [edit] at the grub boot menu and edit the boot parameters "kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdN single" (where N = your root partition)... Then reboot using "b" [boot]... Easy ? ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>########################################### : _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
