Alexander, Mutt is looking for /var/mail/username . It seems that I'm supposed to configure postfix, but I'm hoping there is a GUI application that will do it right.
John On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > On Feb 16, 2005, at 4:50 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > > >Trevor, > > > >Mutt and fetchmail are installed. I have copied .muttrc and > >.fetchmailrc > >from another computer into the home directories of the user accounts. > >Mutt complains about not finding a mailbox. Fetchmail doesn't complain, > >but doesn't pick up anything. I had someone set up MacMail for one > >account, hoping it would establish the connection, but no luck. > > > >Thanks, > >John > > > > One obvious thing to look at is whether you're looking at the right > mailbox--make sure it's looking for /var/mail/user rather than > /var/spool/mail/user, or something like that. > > >On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:15:25AM -0800, Trevor Harmon wrote: > >>On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:36 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > >> > >>>The one hurdle remaining is to set it up to > >>>handle mail with fetchmail and mutt. I was hoping that I could have a > >>>helper set it up with the GUI, but that didn't work. On another > >>>machine > >>>I have Redhat Fedora Core 3. I never could get mail set up quite > >>>right, > >>>so I'm hoping the Mac can be set up easily and correctly. > >> > >>I think you need to provide more details. When you say, "it didn't > >>work", what didn't work? What exactly could you not "set up quite > >>right" on Fedora? I assume you've already installed fetchmail and mutt > >>from Fink? > >> > >>Trevor > >> > > > >-- > >John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer > >Computers to Help People, Inc. > >www.chpi.org > >6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 > > > > > > > -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink Documentarian > [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX > -- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
