I did try that, but mutt returned a message saying /home/user/mail/inbox is not a mailbox. Would that have caused the error messages i got after runnning getmail? On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 14:44 +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 9 Mar 2008 14:34 +0000, by jpg@xxxxxxx (Jamie Griffin): > > but when i open mutt it wants to use /var/mail/user > > Set mutt's $spoolfile setting to wherever your inbox is. >