I can duplicate your problem if I put some garbage like XXXX as the first
line of my mail box file. That is, file reports a mail box but mutt
complains it is not.
Joel
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:17:23PM -0300, skidley wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
>
> >What do you get with:
> >file /var/spool/mail/<user>
> >I get:
> >/var/spool/mail/jlh: mail text
> >Joel
> >
> >On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:45:06PM -0300, skidley wrote:
> >
> >>When I started mutt after a new install I get
> >>
> >/var/spool/mail/<myusername> is not a mailbox. I've never seen such
> >a thing. So I ran fetchmail and it created /var/spool/mail/<user>
> >and downloaded my pop messages and still when I run mutt I get
> >/var/spool/mail... is not a mailbox. why out of the blue would mutt do
> >
> >>such a thing? I have always used /var/spool/mail/<user>. This is >
> >>
> >absolutely horrendous. How can I fix this??????? > > skidley
> >
> >.
> >
> /var/spool/mail/skidley: RFC 822 mail text
>
