On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:58:10AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote: > On Wed 2006.10.04 at 17:40 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > 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. > > not most...just because one linux distro (that i know of) does, doesn't > mean "most" in my book. >
Especially if you use Maildirs in the users home directory it does not make sense to touch /var/mail/$USER. Instead just set $MAIL and probably $MAILDIR to $HOME/Maildir/ and mutt will happily use this as your incomming mail folder. In the end if you are using a MTA that delivers mail to a place different then /var/mail/$USER you need to change $MAIL as well. -- :wq Claudio
