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
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