On Wed 2006.10.04 at 17:40 +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote:
> > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error
> > i got just after i start it on command line:
> > /var/mail/grios: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
>
> Note that when a new user is created via adduser(8),
> his mailbox (/var/mail/$USER) is _not_ created.
>
> > The strangest thing about it, it is that it only happens with my
> > openbsd installed version even having the following in ~/.muttrc
> > set mbox_type=Maildir
> > set folder="~/.mail/"
>
> Mutt tries to open $MAIL (which is obviously /var/mail/grios), not
> "folder". The reason "it only happens with openbsd installed version"
> is probably that obsd didn't create /var/mail/$USER (which most other
> system do, imho). The mailbox _type_ has nothing to do with that.
not most...just because one linux distro (that i know of) does, doesn't
mean "most" in my book.
> > I don't know what i am supposed to do to prevent it from happening.
>
> Just create /var/mail/grios (and chmod it properly).
>
> Jan
>
> PS: man adduser says that
>
> adduser performs the following operations for each new user:
> 3. Mails the new user a welcome message at the discretion of
> the account creator.
>
> On my 3.9 it doesn't, /var/log/maillog doesn't mention it tried to,
> and /var/mail/test doesn't exist. Am I missing something?
you missed the following from adduser(8):
-message file
Send new users a welcome message from file. Specifying a value
of ``no'' for file causes no message to be sent to new users.
