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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


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