On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:45:03AM -0700, Timothy Grant
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> Hi again,
>
> Though I really want to make Mutt work with IMAP, I've decided to take
> the plunge anyway (What the heck I have some space on my notebook) so I
> have setup fetchmail to retrieve mail from my IMAP account. It then
> pipes it into procmail which filters the mail for me into various and
> sundry mailboxes, and hopefully leaves very little in my regular mail
> spool.
>
> However, when I start mutt I get an error telling me that
> /var/spool/mail/tjg is not a mailbox.
I believe the problem is with your setup of fetchmail + procmail
rather than with mutt. I think I've seen something like this on the
procmail mailing list before.
Specifically, when fetchmail hands off to procmail, fetchmail is
expecting to hand off to an MTA (like sendmail, postfix, qmail) and
procmail is expecting to receive something from an MTA. So the
envelope stuff isn't getting put in anywhere.
What does
$ head /var/spool/mail/tjg
give you? If the first line doesn't start with "From ", then my guess
is right, and there's your problem.
If that is it, then I think there's a way to get around this (without
having to invoke sendmail), but I don't know what it is. :-) You
might try the procmail list ([EMAIL PROTECTED] I
think).
>
> Thanks for any assistance you might be able to provide.
Good luck!
--
Jim Toth
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"Abraham Lincoln did not die in vain. He died in Washington, DC."
--The Firesign Theatre
