Hi Richard and Christian, Thanks for the suggestions and the confirmation that Mutt works on the 68K architecture. I figured out what was wrong, and will post it here for posterity.
It seems that Mutt is much more particular about the format of the From_ line than the BSD mail reader. From my observations, Mutt requires a From_ line in the format of: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] DDD MMM NN HH:MM:SS YYYY Where DDD is the 3 letter day abbreviation, MMM is the 3 letter month abbreviation, NN is the number of the day HH:MM:SS is the current time YYYY is the 4 digit year. The mbox format mail file I was using for testing had the date/time inforamtion on the From_ line in a slightly different order, such that Mutt would not see it as the start of a message. The BSD type mail program did not have a problem with either format of the From_ line. The test file was generated by AmiPOP, used on the AmigaOS side of things. The hint was that cron generated an email message, and I noticed that it had a From_ line which was different from the other messages which I had imported for testing out Mutt. --Lance > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:10:19AM +0000, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to get Mutt working on my 68K debian machine. > > I have put an mbox format file in /var/mail/username > > which the bsd mail program reads just fine. > > > > When I run Mutt, it reads the file, but it does not find > > any messages in it. I know it reads the file, it does > > show the size of file on its window, and I've watched > > the disk activity when it was a larger mbox format file > > I was testing. Also tested a small file, no difference. > > never had a problem with mutt on m68k, even reading strange > maildirs and mboxes worked fine. > > If the mbox is nonstandard, try feeding it through > formail: > > formail -ds <orig-mbox > new_mbox > mutt -f new_mbox > > Richard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
