+++ Mario Michael da Costa <Thursday 02 May 2002 08:46 pm>: > I am trying to setup my email to use fetchmail/procmail/mutt, in order > to do this i took suresh's .muttrc file, made a simple .procmailrc > file and ran fetchmail with the option to use procmail as the mda.
OK fine. > promail worked in the sense that i can see the inbox file in my > $HOME/mail directory, and can even view it's contents using vim. but > mutt refuses to open the file. if i rum "mutt -f mail/inbox" from my > home directory i get the message that mail/inbox is not a mailbox > file. What does the inbox file look like? > so what i want to know is wether my method of using procmail is > screwing up somewhere, why is mutt not able to open that file, and if > i do not use the 'mda "/usr/bin/procmail"' option in fetchmailrc then > i do not even know where my mail goes to since /var/spool/mail/mario > was not getting updated after running fetchmail without the mda > option. Then - take a look at your /var/log/maillog to see where the mail was going? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LOST #188 -**< Sub : Manipulating DOS floppies >**- There is package called "mtools" just for this. Once installed you can do manipulation of DOS floppies/ partitions using all commonly used DOS syntax with prefix of "m" ... For example : mcopy a:/test.txt /home/usr/. For directory listing: mdir a:; or mformat a: to format a: as msdos floppy _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
