* Erik Jakobsen <eja@xxxxxxxxxxx> [12-04-2005 09:07]: > >>>>I made it by touch erikja in /var/mail > >>>> > >>>Do not do this. It is automaticly created ba the system. > >>> > Just by typing mutt on a prompt ?. > > >>> > >>>>ls -al /var/mail/erikja > >>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 erikja users 0 2005-04-07 18:37 /var/mail/erikja > >>>> > >>> ^^^^ > >>> This does not work. > >>> The mailbox must be 0600. > >>> > >> > >>No need to 'touch' a mailbox first - let the MTA take care of this. > >> > And postfix will do that, as I type mutt at the prompt ?. Mutt and Postfix don't depend on eachother. Postfix should be configured to put received mail for "erikja" in /var/mail/erikja. Mutt should be (and is, so it seems) configured to read mail from this same location. If mutt spits an error like: /var/mail/erikja: No such file or directory (errno = 2) This is because: - no mail has been received for erikja - Postfix delivered mail for erikja in an other location, possible through $mailbox_command - (some less obvious explanations left out) It could be that Postfix has a $mailbox_command configured, something like: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail This means Postfix passes the message to procmail, which takes care of the actual delivery in a mailbox. > Sorry for asking again, but I also have puzzled with fetchmail, and got > it up working. What do you mean by "working"? Where is the mail stored that was retrieved through fetchmail? Perhaps also filtered through procmail? > Then I would get back to mutt, and typed mutt at the > prompt, but this occured: > > /var/mail/erikja: No such file or directory (errno = 2) See my story above, replace Postfix with fetchmail - the same might be the case. -- René Clerc - (rene@xxxxxxxx) - PGP: 0x9ACE0AC7 God is science's putty. -René Clerc
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