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smk

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From: Dresden / Germany

Registered: 2006-02-27

Posts: 22

Configuring Mutt

Hi,

when I start mutt, I get the following error message:

/home/smoke/mail/inbox: No such file or directory (errno = 2)

I tried to simply create the directory, but it didn't work out.
Any suggestions?

chimeric

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 254

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Re: Configuring Mutt

Hi,

"normally" your mail inbox is located at /var/spool/mail/<username> - you could try to symlink it to /home/smoke/mail/inbox. If this does not work could you eventually post your .muttrc?

multios

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 36

Re: Configuring Mutt

You might also find answers here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt

smk

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From: Dresden / Germany

Registered: 2006-02-27

Posts: 22

Re: Configuring Mutt

When I symlink the directory, I get the error message "/var/mail/smoke is not a mailbox.".
A .muttrc doesn't exist either.

@multios
I already read the wiki and the pages linked in it. But it didn't really help to solve my problem.

abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

Posts: 184

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Re: Configuring Mutt

Is your mutt mailbox a maildir? Then you will have to create these directories - cur new tmp in the maildir, otherwise inbox will simply be a file, not a directory.

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: Configuring Mutt

MOAR INFO! Paste your configuration and tell us what you are trying to do!

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smk

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From: Dresden / Germany

Registered: 2006-02-27

Posts: 22

Re: Configuring Mutt

I don't have any configuration. I just installed mutt with pacman -S mutt and then I created ~/mail/inbox/ and symlinked it so /var/spool/mail/smoke/ (it is symlinked to /var/mail/smoke/

I also get a console message that tells me, that I have mail in /var/mail/smoke/ but the directory is empty.
And I simply want to fetch my mail.

Last edited by smk (2007-11-07 13:44:06)

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: Configuring Mutt

In that case: read the wiki again! When you want to fetch your mail you need to know how to that (offlineimap, getmail etc.) and that's in the wiki.

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multios

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 36

Re: Configuring Mutt

Also, read the links again, or go to www.mutt.org and look at different sample .muttrc

Where in the wiki did it mention doing a symlink? In mutt, just hit the "c" key and change to wherever you want.

Create a .muttrc in your home directory and start over