Am 2008-10-08 13:37:30, schrieb Indi: > > 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! Does each of the messages have a preceeding From some@email <date> string? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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