On 07.02.18 22:37, kalle wrote: > In the manual v.1.9.2, chapter "2.1 Index" it says > > "The index is the screen that you usually see first when you start Mutt. It > gives an overview over your emails in the currently opened mailbox." > > The problem is: there are no mails to see, because there is no mailbox of > mine open and I don't know how to do this.
Then mutt is failing to find your spoolfile: » 3.299. spoolfile Type: path Default: (empty) If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt cannot find it, you can specify its location with this variable. Mutt will initially set this variable to the value of the environment variable $MAIL or $MAILDIR if either is defined. « If further diagnosis is needed, it might be useful to post your mutt version number. (From mutt -v) Although I have neither $MAIL nor $MAILDIR defined in the environment, mutt has always found the mail spool, as is the case for most mutt users, I expect. In the index view, press y for the mailboxes view, which in my case presents: 1 -rw------- 1 erik erik 6.1M Feb 05 15:41 =avr_chat_u 2 -rw------- 1 erik erik 12M Jan 17 13:23 =avr_gcc_u ... 16 -rw-rw---- 1 erik mail 9.4M Feb 08 12:05 /var/spool/mail/erik If your spoolfile is in some unusual place, then you now have three ways to tell mutt where it is located. As you are using linux on your host, try: $ ls /var/spool/mail/ to see what is there. (And go from there.) For later: If you use some utility to fetch and sort mail into multiple inboxes, e.g. one per mailing list, then the "mailboxes" command can be used in ~/.muttrc to configure those as well. > > It is the third time already that I try to learn mutt but having no mails to > start with, not knowing what is meant by a 'mailbox' and how to administrate > it, even when reading in the newbie manual not getting to a point. The <F1> manual does discuss mailboxes, describing both mbox and maildir formats. Once you've found your spoolfile, then you can inform yourself: $ file /var/spool/mail/erik /var/spool/mail/erik: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines $ view /var/spool/mail/erik to see what the mbox format looks like. Your persistence is admirable, and with the help of a few answered questions, I'm sure you'll succeed. It'll be interesting to hear how the spoolfile managed to hide. Erik
