On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:21:10PM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Does the default installation of postfix work out of the box? I tried > apt-get install postfix and then apt-get install mutt. I run mutt and it says: > > /var/spool/mail/user: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
This is a mutt thing. Create a file in /var/spool/mail/ with your user name. Here are the permissions mine has - scab:/var/spool/mail# ll kent -rw-rw---- 1 kent mail 0 May 22 22:01 kent > > Is this normal? I tried installing exim and sendmail instead, but the same > thing results. Do I have to do something special to get the spool files > created? Do I have to do something special to get the postfix (or whatever) > to write to the spool files? > Setting up postfix, exim, sendmail really depends on your needs. I found the following links helpful in setting up postfix - http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/book1.html http://postfix.linux.it/start.html kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
