On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:05:26AM -0800, --A. Santoyo-- wrote:
> hello I'm having trouble getting mutt to run. when I run the mutt
> command at the prompt I get an error that says /var/spool/mail/root is
> not a mail folder. what can I do about this. Any other tips to get
a) Never, ever read mail as root. Are you insane? mutt used to have a MIME
bug which could arbitrary commands to be executed. As root (in your case)
-- all I can say is "rm -Rf /" :)
Create an alias for mail to root:
in /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases:
root: some_other_user_but_not_root
and run "newaliases" afterwards.
b) About that bit with the mail-folder:
Can you read it with elm? with pine? with mail?
--
Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
--Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977
