From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Invalid inbox.
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:21:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007701c320d1$f83ce560$c9859641@tward1978> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0305221909570.23148-100000@wb2flw.octothorp.org>
Hi, bill. Thanks for correcting my typo.
However, the default path is failing. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
----- Original Message -----
From: William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 <wacker@octothorp.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Invalid inbox.
> Hi,
>
> When you use the useradd command, an empty file is created in
> /var/spool/mail. The file is named for the user, is owned by the user,
> is in group mail, and has a mode of -rw-rw---
> The spool directory is /var/spool, not /var/spooler.
>
> HTH.
> --
> Bill in Denver
>
>
> On Thu, 22 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
>
> > Hello, everyone.
> > Ever since upgrading to Red Hat 9.0 I've had many problems getting mail
> > working which is unusual.
> > The first was a fetchmail problem which I solved, but another problem
has
> > appeared which I am unable to solve.
> > After fetching mail from the earthlink pop server I can not find email
in my
> > pine inbox, and infact pine clames there is no inbox.
> > I went to mutt, and was setting it up when mutt gave me the error:
> > "/var/spooler/mail/tward1978 is not a valid inbox."
> > I then created a test account, and mut and pine gave the same results.
any
> > ideas what is wrong, and why all the mail programs seam to think my
inboxes
> > are not valid inboxes?
> > Does anyone have any fixes, suggestions, or can lend a hand in this?
> > Thanks.
> >
>
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