Sean --

...and then Sean LeBlanc said...
% I can't get mutt to work. For some reason,
% it's saying /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?

It probably is, but mutt probably can't read or lock it.

Try

  cp -p /var/mail/sean /tmp/sean
  mutt -f /tmp/sean

and see what you get.  If it works, then you have a locking problem.


% 
% I don't get it, since I can cat this file,
% and it has what looks like normal mail in
% it.

Please run

  ls -lFda /var/mail `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock`
  mutt -v

and post the results.  I bet that mutt and/or mutt_dotlock have not been
installed with SGID permissions and that /var/mail is writable only by
root and the mail group.


% 
% This is on FreeBSD 4.4, if it makes any
% difference.

This happens everywhere :-)


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