kmail - local mailbox - feeling dumb

2001-12-01 Thread Hank Marquardt 
OK, so I use Mutt anyway, but I'm trying to setup kmail for my Mom of
all folks and I can't get it to see the local mailbox -- I didn't find
anything productive in an archive search so I figured I'd ask here.

This is an unstable box, brand new user, no garbage or baggage to mung
things up -- fire up kmail, it does it's configuration for first time
use -- fine, now there's an address book and Mail directory.  I went to
Configure KMail - Network added the local mailbox as /var/mail/$user
told it to use mutt dotlocks, turned on interval checking and saved ...

Tell it to check mail, nothing ... pull down the menu for Check mail
here and select the local name... nothing.   There is mail, I've sent
it, I get the shell 'New mail in /var/mail/$user' on shell login.

Logged out, tried again ... nothing.

What the heck am I missing?


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Re: kmail - local mailbox - feeling dumb

2001-12-01 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls 
On Saturday 01 December 2001 09:50 am, Hank Marquardt wrote:
 This is an unstable box, brand new user, no garbage or baggage to mung
 things up -- fire up kmail, it does it's configuration for first time
 use -- fine, now there's an address book and Mail directory.  I went to
 Configure KMail - Network added the local mailbox as /var/mail/$user
 told it to use mutt dotlocks, turned on interval checking and saved ...

 Tell it to check mail, nothing ... pull down the menu for Check mail
 here and select the local name... nothing.   There is mail, I've sent
 it, I get the shell 'New mail in /var/mail/$user' on shell login.


Hank:

I also had issues with local mail, and my own experience is lame so I checked 
each one individually. 

Firstly, my mail lives in:   /var/spool/mail/jaye

That might be an issue for you too.

Next, all the mail chks failed except:  Mutt dotlock (privileged)
The (recommended) didn't work here on my Testing Woody box.

hth

tatah
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