On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark Copper said: > > I'm want to set up e-mail on my Debian box and am having trouble with > > basics. > > > > When I start mutt, I get an error message: > > /var/mail/<myusername>: no such file or directory > > > > And indeed there is not. Should there be? Is this an exim or mutt or > > simply a permissions thing? > > Send yourself a test message: > mail -s "making a mailbox" <myusername>@localhost < any_text_file > > That will create the mailbox, unless you have any filtering going on, or > use ~/Maildir or something. > > If you use Maildir, or filtering, tell mutt where the mailspool is in > .muttrc > > HTH,
Yes, it does. Thank you and thank you for your patience with such a silly question. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
