[Gllug] mail

[Bruce Richardson]

On 3/4/02, 4:01:20 PM, will <will at hellacool.co.uk> wrote regarding [Gllug] 
mail:


> I installed mutt (1.2.5.1i) today on my home machine as I intend to read
> my email using it over an SSH connection but I encountered some
> strangeness.  Mutt claimed that my spool directory did not exist
> (/var/spool/mail/will) and I checked and it didn't.  I created this file
> and mutt stopped complaining about it not being there but I think I
> cured a symptom and not the problem.

It's only a symptom of the fact that you hadn't received any local mail 
at that point and so had no mailspoo.

> I cannot mail local or internet
> users using:

> $mail user

For that you need the mailx package.  Is it installed?

-- 

Bruce

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