On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:39:05 +0900 Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:02:44PM -0800, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:58:15 -0600 Aaron Schrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > At 21:26 -0800 02 Mar 2002, Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Mutt newbie here, starting to be a frustrated Mutt newbie. The > > > > docs say that Mutt should work "out-of -the-box". Well, mine > > > > don't. I installed the one off of the SuSe DVD, which doesn't > > > > create me a .muttrc file. So, I went to the Mutt home page, then > > > > to the muttrc file generator page and got my initial muttrc file. > > > > I have entered my personal data into the file. But, I cannot get > > > > mutt to read my mail. In my home directory I have: > > > > > > > > /home/jerry/Mail > > > > /home/jerry/Mail/inbox > > > > /home/jerry/Mail/suse-linux > > > > > > Try adding the following to your .muttrc file: > > > > > > set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox mailboxes ! +suse-linux > > > > > I know I am coming in late to this thread... but if you installed mutt > from the SuSE DVD, you should have a default .muttrc in /etc/skel. I am > running SuSE 7.1, and the default muttrc won't help you much. It just > has a couple of key definitions and a lot of coloring. > > Unless you have procmail configured to deliver mail to > /home/jerry/Mail/inbox, I wouldn't expect to see much there. You may > want to set spoolfile to /var/spool/mail/jerry. I DO have procmail configured to deliver mail to /home/jerry/Mail/inbox. And, in fact, I have sucessfully downloaded some mail into it. It was a zero byte file, after I dl'd some mail, then it grew to ??KB (some size). I can read it with an editor so I know it's got mail in it. But Mutt won't read it. If I open up Mutt, press c, then ?, select inbox, then Mutt says that /home/jerry/Mail/inbox is not a mailbox. So, what am I missing in the configuration? Thanks for any help, Jerry > > If you have problems getting sendmail configured, just let me know. I > used the SuSEconfig program to get it set up properly. > > I know how you feel - I have been back and forth between KMail (YUCK) > and mutt, and it took me until now to finally figure out how to get > sendmail set up properly. > > Jonathan > >
