> I have an embarrassing question to ask.  I installed Mutt and upon running
> the creature it complained that I do not have a mailbox.  This is a big
> mystery for me.   How do I get/make a mailbox?

I've never used mutt, but did it ask you if it could create a mailbox? Elm
does that upon first run. A mailbox is simply a file in your home directory,
usually under the Mail subdirectory. Elm (and probably others) use Mail/inbox
as the mailbox

You should of course also have a mailbox in the mail spool area - 
/var/spool/mail. It should be the same as your username, and have the
permissions -rw------ (read write by owner), owned by you and the
mail groop.

If you don't have this file, run as root the following commands:

# touch /var/spool/mail/warren (assuming that's your login name)
# chmod 600 /var/spool/mail/warren
# chown warren.mail /var/spool/mail/warren

> -warren
 
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