Re: [LI] Prob with Mutt

["Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri." <spavri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 08:10:01PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> > I'm trying to acces my emails from Linux. I followed the steps as given
in
> > the PCQ articles. Now when I fire up Mutt it gives the message
> > /var/spool/mail/root is absent.
>
> Ooh - first of all why are you running as root? <half joking, half
> serious question :->

It's a standalone machine, I am the only user and I also have a user login
but running mutt from there also gives the same message.

> > When I created it, mutt gives a message /var/spool/mail/root is not a
> > mialbox.
>
> How did you create it?  Just a "touch"?  If it's a 0-length file
> it should work - I just checked on mine.

Please explain this bit, I didn't understand what you meant by "touch". You
see, when I checked in /var/spool/mail/ there is no mailbox named root or
spavri (username).

Thanx,

Sharukh.


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