On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 08:51:47PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:19:44PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > When I open mutt on the old machine, I get a list of all the > > > mailboxes for the current month. But on the new machine I get > > > > > > /home/ken/Mail is not a mailbox. > > > > How do you invoke mutt? Do you have an alias? What is the value of > > $spoolflie? > > > > Thanks for the questions - on the old machine I DO have an alias, > 'mutt -y' which I had completely forgotten about. The new box is > powered off at the moment to get some disks added, I'll have to > check if that alias is present (I copied some things in bashrc > from a desktop box, maybe I copied all of the desktop bashrc) - > might not be tonight when I get around to checking that. > > I cannot see any setting for spoolfile. > > Will follow up once I've sorted out the disks / mountings and > checked the alias. > Finally took a break from struggling to fix the drives in the wonderful new-style tool-less fixings and booted it : if I use 'mutt -y' everything works as expected.
Sorry for the noise - I see it was about 6 years ago that I built the current server, and probably rather longer since I created that alias, so I suppose I should expect to forget things which are not in my notes. ĸen -- Brave Sir Nigel ran away! When reality reared its ugly head, Sir Nigel turned his tail and fled. Brave brave brave Sir Nigel.
