V Suresh rearranged electrons thusly: > I am not understanding much about mutt. The documentations too don't > clarify much. So I post my doubts here: > 1. There was a /root/Mail dir, which had inbox, outbox, etc. > After reading previous messages thru mutt, I deleted all > messages in inbox, then the box itself is gone.How do I create > a inbox? echo "test"|mail root By the way, dont use the root login for sending and receiving mails. Go in only for admin / config tasks (and that too, preferably using su) > 2. What does mutt do when I ask it to send a message after > composing one? Where does it keep the unsent messages and how do I > send them from the command line to my ISP? Like I said in my previous mail, please read http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html - it explains configuring fetchmail + sendmail + mutt. -suresh -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin "What separates normal people from kooks is how they react when people disagree with them or tell them "NO" <-- Ron Ritzman on news.admin.net-abuse.email ------------------------------------------------ An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
