mutt and exim on debian

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Are you using the default settings of mutt and exim?

when you set up mutt did you change anything?  there should be a
setting such as set spoolfile="/var/mail/xxx" where xxx is the name of
the mailbox.

mutt by default will use the variable $MAIL to read from that spool.  so
to see what $MAIL is do: 'echo $MAIL' and see what it is set to.  If it
is different than where you mail is then you will have to either change
muttrc with the correct value or just set the  $MAIL variable to the
correct setting.  remember that Debian stores it's mail spool in
/var/mail, and not /var/spool/mail however a simlink is provided for
backward compatibility.

Hope this helps.

Thomas Stivers said
the following on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:49:25AM -0500:
> They are both on the same box. Sorry I didn't make this more clear. I
> simply get the message that my mailbox is not a mailbox. I can use less to
> look at the mailbox and there are definitely messages in it.
> --
> Thomas Stivers
> stivers_t at mail.utexas.edu
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
> To: "speakup list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: mutt and exim on debian
> 
> 
> > Can you be more specific?  Are you using mutt locally on the box where
> > exim is? or are you using mutt from another box and retrieving you mail
> > from the pop3 features of mutt?
> >
> > I have debian testing with mutt and exim locally here and it all works
> > fine using /var/mail/mailboxname
> >
> >
> >
> > Thomas Stivers said the following on Mon, May 13, 2002 at
> 07:31:01AM -0500:
> > > Does anyone know why I get a /var/mail/xxxx is not a mailbox when I
> use
> > > mutt to check mail? I use exim on debian/testing and as far as I can
> tell
> > > it should work. Alternatively where can I get the pine package for
> debian?
> > > Thanks
> > > --
> > > Thomas Stivers
> > > stivers_t at mail.utexas.edu
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go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
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