Re: /mail/sent-mail: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
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On Wednesday, August 16 at 07:36 PM, quoth James Miller:
> I added the line "set record="~/mail/sent-mail"" to .muttrc, but
> then I could not send at all. Instead, when I would try to send mail
> I'd get the message "/mail/sent-mail: No such file or directory
> (errno = 2)".
Your error message suggests that it is not expanding the ~ correctly;
it is just replacing it with nothing. The "/mail/sent-mail: ..." is
not a name relative to your home directory, it's telling you that it's
actually looking for /mail/sent-mail (i.e. a mailbox named "sent-mail"
inside a directory named "mail" in your root directory, not in your
home directory). Try fully specifying the path, rather than using a
tilde. You can also try using $HOME rather than ~, if you need to be
generic.
> I tried a number of different things to create a file or directory
> called sent-mail under ~/mail: doing mkdir sent-mail, copying a
> message to the ~/mail directory and renaming it sent-mail, saving a
> message there and naming it sent-mail, etc . None of these things
> satisfied mutt. I still get the message "/mail/sent-mail: No such
> file or directory (errno = 2)" when trying to send mail.
None of that will have any effect if it's looking for the mailbox in
the wrong location (as the error message suggests).
~Kyle
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