Re: New user setup questions
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:10:59AM -0700, George wrote:
> I really hate to post dumb sounding questions, but I'm really confused
> about how to go about setting up mutt. If someone can help me through
> this, the complicated bits I'm confident I can figure out on my own.
>
> I created an initial .muttrc using the following:
>
> set realname = "Real Name"
> set from = "realname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> set spoolfile = "~/mail/inbox"
> set folder = "~/mail"
> set mbox = "+received"
> set record = "+sent"
> set pop_host = "pop.myisp.net"
> set pop_user = "realname@xxxxxxxxx"
>
> Ran mutt, exited mutt, fixed the terminal issues, ran mutt again and
> selected 'G' to fetch my mail. Mutt starts downloading, creates a new
> 3MB 'inbox' file but tells me I have zero messages. So I repeat the
> process hoping for a different outcome, but everything's the same,
> except now I have a 6MB 'inbox' file that mutt still isn't reading.
>
> As an alternative, I try 'c' and 'pop://pop.myisp.net' directly and
> voila, mutt downloads (?) my headers and life seems good. I can copy
> messages using 'C' to an alternate temp mbox and read those messages
> without a problem, but if I try changing back to my inbox, mutt
> reports zero messages again.
>
> I'm missing something really obvious here, but for the moment it's not
> obvious enough. What I'd like to know, apart from why mutt isn't
> reading my inbox, is:
>
> 1. If I pop my email account directly, am I supposed to be manually
> saving or moving those messages?
> 2. Should I ignore all this and just go ahead and set up fetchmail,
> procmail, etc. and stop asking questions? (I'm using Cygwin, so
> have some pity.)
> 3. What took me so long to try mutt?
>
> Thanks.
>
I dont know much about this but my set spoolfile is different. I use
/var/mail/tom. You can type procmail -v ina terminal and it will give
you the name of your spoolfile.
HTH
Tom