Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:42:13 +0000 From: "Brian K . Walters" <bkwalters@lucent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procmail/mutt Message-ID: <20000410164213.B1718@kagan.quedawg.com> In-Reply-To: <20000408131119.A842@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:11:19PM -0500 References: <20000408131119.A842@localhost.localdomain>
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On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:11:19PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 03:43:04PM +0000, Brian K . Walters wrote: > > When I try to read the mail with mutt it says > > that ~/Mail/Inbox is not a mailbox. I did a make deinstall/reinstall > of > > both procmail and mutt and I still get the same results. Does anyone > know > > what I might be doing wrong? > > What does your procmail rule look like? I originally had one, which > worked > with a Linux distribution, that had a / at the end of each mailbox. With > FreeBSD that didn't work; procmail thought it was a directory, not a > file No I don't think thats it I have in my procmailrc MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox no / at the end of the mailbox. > (mailboxes are really just long files). Perhaps check that. Also, does > your > directory structure even exist? Try mkdir ~/Mail, cd into it and then > touch > Inbox. The directory structure does exist. ~/Mail/Inbox. Inbox was created when I sent mail to the address and procmail stored it in ~/Mail/Inbox. See if that helps. Maybe also try this line in your .muttrc: set > folder=~/Mail > > > Also the statements for colors that I have defined in my ~/.muttrc are > not > > being recognized. Mutt just starts up in mono with no error messages. > It just > > seems to ignore the color directives. > > You're using mutt in XWindows, right? If so I've probably got the > answer: > you need a ~/.bashrc (assuming you're using bash) file. Login windows > read > ~/.profile, which is why export TERM=xterm-color will give you a > colorized > mutt login window. But for X you need to put that same line in a file > called > .bashrc. Then you'll be all set. Thanks for the tip. That seemed to do the trick for the color problems > > -- > David Kanter > djkanter@nwu.edu -- Brian K. Walters bkwalters@lucent.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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