so spake Larry Alkoff [2004.05.26 @ 10:38]:
> Please PMFJI.
NP
> I do NOT have ~/Mail directory set up.
ok.
> I do have MAIL=~/Mail in my environment.
why? does your MTA deliver your mail there? check that your assumptions
of this variable are consistent with the manual:
spoolfile
Type: path
Default: “”
If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt can-
not find it, you can specify its location with this variable.
Mutt will automatically set this variable to the value of the
environment variable $MAIL if it is not set
> I also have
> set folder=~\Mail in my /etc/mutt/muttrc
s{\\}{/} ?
why do you have this set? check if your assumptions of this variable
are consisitent with the manual:
folder
Type: path
Default: “~/Mail”
Specifies the default location of your mailboxes. ....
as you can see, you're telling mutt that'~/Mail' is functioning as two
separate entitities, which, unfortunately, are mutually exclusive.
say what you mean, not what you say. :)
> and nothing except source that file and color directives in ~/.muttrc.
>
> When I start Mutt, I get
> "/home/lba/Mail does not exist, create it (YES,n)
> I answer yes or just ENTER and a /home/lba/Mail directory is created as
> expected.
> However Mutt says /home/lba/Mail is not a directory even though it exists
> with permissions 700 and owner lba.
are you sure it says it's not a directory? usually mutt says 'blah is
not a Mailbox', which means exactly that, the folder that mutt created
(~/Mail) is just that, a folder, not a mailbox.
>
> I've removed /home/lba/Mail several times and restarted Mutt with the above
> results.
if you do the same exact thing multiple times on a computer, you should
get the same results, right? ;)
> Something is missing but I don't know what.
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
an understanding of the variables mbox, mbox_type, folder, and
spoolfile should help you out.
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