/var/mail/$username" is not a mailbox

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Subject: /var/mail/$username" is not a mailbox
From: Indi <indulekha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:37:30 -0400
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Hi,

I have been using mutt without trouble on OS X for several weeks
until today, when suddenly I got "/var/mail/$username is not a mailbox".
What on earth happened? I haven't done a thing to my mailspool
file, nor to .muttrc. The only thing I can think of that might have
somehow caused this is that I set up fetchmail as a cronjob and did not
specify where to send output (so it would get mailed to me). I have
since taken that out of crontab.

I can cat my /var/mail/$username file; there *is* mail there.
Perms are 600, owner is username, group is mail.

I have Googled this extensively and found no useful answer, so have 
been forced to revert to claws-mail for an MUA -- arrgh!


TIA

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