I think i might have some problems with Maildir: I've got the Maildir directory, with the require cur.tmp,new sub directories.
Then i've got IN-inbox (spoolfile) and its sub-directires inside ~/Maildir. I've then got 3 other directories for mailing list mailboxes set up in the same way. as well as 'Drafts' 'Sent' Having ~/Maildir/cur/new/tmp in this way, and then having other maildirs, is this the correct way to set them up? this is the output from ls -al : drwx------ 11 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 21:52 . drwxr-xr-x 39 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 22:36 .. drwx------ 2 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:25 cur drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 21:52 Drafts drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:26 IN-inbox drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:26 IN-mutt-dev drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:26 IN-mutt-users drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:27 IN-ubuntu-users drwx------ 2 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:25 new drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:57 Sent drwx------ 2 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:25 tmp in case it helps, i know it's a basic thing but i'd appreciate it if someone could provide any tips. Jamie On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:10:15PM +0100, Steve S wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:34:23PM +0000, Jamie Griffin wrote: > > I've been struggling for ages trying to set up mutt on my linux > > machine. > > > > I've specified the Maildir mailboxes in muttrc > > set up procmail > > set up getmail to pop my email > > > > > but when i open mutt it wants to use /var/mail/user > > > > i created this using: > > > > sudo touch /var/mail/user > > sudo chown user:users /var/mail/user > > sudo chmod 600/var/mail/user > > > > This stopped mutt complaining it wasn't there but now when i pop my > > email using getmail, i'm lots of error messages returned from the shell > > with procmail. its saying the problem is with /var/mail/user.lock ??? > > > > none of the messages are being filtered into the right folders as a > > result... i don't know what to do next. Any ideas? > > > > Jamie > > Hmm never seen errors like these, but I'm using pretty much your setup. > > muttrc: > > set mbox_type=Maildir > set folder=~/Maildir > set spoolfile=~/Maildir > set trash=+trash > set record=+sent > set postponed=+postponed > mailboxes +spam +inbox +sent ... > > .procmailrc starts with: > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ > > The MDA part of my getmailrc files (I use `getmail -r <rc-file1> -r <rc-file2> > ...` to fetch mail from several POP3 accounts): > > [destination] > type = MDA_external > arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)") > path = /usr/bin/procmail > > > HTH > > cheers, > steve