Invalid inbox.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi,

     When you use the useradd command, an empty file is created in 
/var/spool/mail.  The file is named for the user, is owned by the user, 
is in group mail, and has a mode of -rw-rw---
The spool directory is /var/spool, not /var/spooler.

          HTH.
-- 
          Bill in Denver


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
> Ever since upgrading to Red Hat 9.0 I've had many problems getting mail
> working which is unusual.
> The first was a fetchmail problem which I solved, but another problem has
> appeared which I am unable to solve.
> After fetching mail from the earthlink pop server I can not find email in my
> pine inbox, and infact pine clames there is no inbox.
> I went to mutt, and was setting it up when mutt gave me the error:
> "/var/spooler/mail/tward1978 is not a valid inbox."
> I then created a test account, and mut and pine gave the same results. any
> ideas what is wrong, and why all the mail programs seam to think my inboxes
> are not valid inboxes?
> Does anyone have any fixes, suggestions, or can lend a hand in this?
>  Thanks.
>