Correct, the message of $HOME/Mail not being created, and $MAIL: No such
file or directory, have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I
only used that as an example of how primative Mutt can be at times.
Mutt will read a lot of different file "formats" with no basic problem.
Up until recently, it would even read procmail.log, but two releases ago
it stopped doing that.
If you answer yes to Mutt when it asks would you like it to create
$HOME/Mail, it will in fact create it for you. I go through and specify
in /etc/Muttrc, or where ever it is on that server, to use $HOME/mail,
that's just me. So I never see that message. But if there's no mail in
$MAIL, there's no file there to read, so that's why it complains.
However, two or three versions ago, if you left the line:
my_hdr Organization:
Just like that, with nothing there after, it would cause a core dump. I
banged my head up against the wall trying to figure out why the heck
this was happening! I sent a few messages to the mutt list and they
basically told me it was because that line was empty. They'd never
tested something like that so they didn't know it would happen. Then
told me, "Well if you're smart enough to edit your own .muttrc you
should be smart enough not to leave a line like that, but we'll look
into it." I just tested it in Mutt 1.2.5i, and 1.3.15i and the problemm
doesn't occur.
But that's getting off topic. But the problem experienced by the user
has nothing to do with procmail. Maybe Mutt will later have an option
to then create $MAIL as well, but then again that may just be a bad
idea.
tdh
--
T. Holmes
-----------------
UNIXTECHS.org
tim(_at_)unixtechs(_dot_)org
-----------------
"Real Men Use Vi!"
Uptime:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
10:49pm up 6 days, 9:43, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
--------------------------------------------------------------------
| On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:43:19PM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
| > If there is no $MAIL, it will complain. Mutt is very 'advanced' and
| > very primative at times as well. If not configured/customized correctly
| > it will cause core dumps. (If you have a line in your .muttrc that it
| > doesn't like it will cause a core dump. I've had this problem. The
|
| this might have been true at one time, but since I've been using Mutt (2.5
| years), it has never once core-dumped on me due to a bad line in the .muttrc.
| (actually, I can't think of a time when it has EVER core dumped...)
| It just tells me it didn't understand that line of the file and continues
| loading, ignoring the nonsensical line.
|
| > So, what I usually do when I create a new user, is as that user, I just
| > touch $MAIL
| >
| > touch $MAIL
|
| Oddly enough, when Mutt asks if you want it to create $HOME/Mail, if you just
| answer yes, it's taken care of.
|
| > If you then do a ls -la $MAIL it will show that the file is there, but
| > it's size is 0. Open up mutt and the error message will be gone. This
| > doesn't have anything to do with procmail, or a "From" line.
|
| I rather doubt that, since the error message "$HOME/Mail does not exist. Shall
| I create $HOME/Mail?" has nothing to do with "/var/spool/mail/$logname is not
| a mailbox". One is the compiled in default directory where Mutt expects to
| find extra mail folders and is purely a Mutt issue. The other is a file format
| issue. Given that Mutt can read just about every folder format out there, if
| it's complaining that the folder it's trying to read is not a mailbox, chances
| are something is writing to that file in an incorrect format, before Mutt ever
| saw it.
|
| --
| Andrew Edelstein - andrew(_at_)pure-chaos(_dot_)com
| http://andrew.pure-chaos.com
| _______________________________________________
| procmail mailing list
| procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
| http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail
------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
procmail mailing list
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail