I've been struggling for ages trying to set up mutt on my linux machine. I've specified the Maildir mailboxes in muttrc set up procmail set up getmail to pop my email
but when i open mutt it wants to use /var/mail/user i created this using: sudo touch /var/mail/user sudo chown user:users /var/mail/user sudo chmod 600/var/mail/user This stopped mutt complaining it wasn't there but now when i pop my email using getmail, i'm lots of error messages returned from the shell with procmail. its saying the problem is with /var/mail/user.lock ??? none of the messages are being filtered into the right folders as a result... i don't know what to do next. Any ideas? Jamie
