touch command doesn't work chris@q4os-desktop:~$ touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail
touch: cannot touch '/home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail': No such file or directory chris@q4os-desktop:~$ cd /home/chris chris@q4os-desktop:~$ touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail touch: cannot touch '/home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail': No such file or directory chris@q4os-desktop:~$ Chris On Thu, Jun 6, 2024, at 10:54 PM, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote: > > > [Can't open /home/chris/maildrop: not a selectable folder] > > It looks like /home/chris/maildrop is a directory in your file system. As > such it is not a location that can be used to save messages. However, an > empty file would work, for example, /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail. Make > sure you create an empty file > > touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail > > before you create the maidrop in Alpine. > > -- > Eduardo > _______________________________________________ > Alpine-info mailing list > Alpine-info@u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info >
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