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.
> 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?
