Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:11:19 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procmail/mutt Message-ID: <20000408131119.A842@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20000407154304.A9926@kagan.quedawg.com>; from bkwalters@lucent.com on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 03:43:04PM %2B0000 References: <20000407154304.A9926@kagan.quedawg.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 (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. 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. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: jbTOpcAeGqsm3+uOMiuwHAQ7NFu+WLwD iQA/AwUBOO9oNEO/HZKyc03cEQK0awCfU3QhVFuKioVZ0SLarl/kSgY2VDYAnj3f bQpCJKcTcCDo8M+YgbPm0vYB =MTqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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