From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19J183-000343-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 21:13:51 -0400 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (wb2flw.octothorp.org [127.0.0.1]) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4N1DkMk023191 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 01:13:46 GMT Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h4N1DjSU023186 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 19:13:45 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:13:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Invalid inbox. In-Reply-To: <001f01c32089$bd67a300$f2849641@tward1978> Message-ID: References: <001f01c32089$bd67a300$f2849641@tward1978> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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. >