I'm posting this in the Debian because I have a suspicion it might be something inherent to the Mutt build for the distro (Debian Lenny). I have configured Exim to drop mail in ~/Maildir, and I want Mutt to read this directory automatically when started; however:
- When I start mutt manually with 'mutt -m Maildir -f ~/Maildir', everything works as expected.
- When I start mutt with no command line options, I am warned that /var/mail/<username> does not exist, and would I like to create it. Understandably, mutt does not look in ~/Maildir.
- I create ~/.muttrc, add the line 'set folder = ~/Maildir', and start mutt. This time I don't get the offer to create /var/mail/<username>, mutt simply tells me that the directory does not exist and gives me 'errno = 2'. Typing ':set ?folder' returns 'folder="~/Maildir"' as expected, however mutt refuses to read this folder automatically.
The reason I think this may be to do with the distro build is the 'MAILPATH' flag in the output of 'mutt -v':
Code:
Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.6.27.2-xenU (i686)
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20081213 (compiled with 5.7)
libidn: 1.8 (compiled with 1.10)
hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Apr 24 2006 03:25:20)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP +USE_GSS -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
-EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.
patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2
patch-1.5.13.cd.purge_message.3.4
patch-1.5.13.nt+ab.xtitles.4
patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime
patch-1.5.6.dw.maildir-mtime.1
patch-1.5.8.hr.sensible_browser_position.3
Is the only way to specify MAILPATH at compile time? And if so, is there (seriously) no way to override it?
For reference, here is the content of my .muttrc:
Code:
set mbox_type = Maildir
set folder = ~/Maildir
...and the output of 'mutt -debug 3':
Code:
Mutt 1.5.18 started at Mon Aug 24 07:06:06 2009
.
Debugging at level 3.
Reading configuration file '/etc/Muttrc'.
Reading configuration file '/usr/lib/mutt/source-muttrc.d|'.
Reading configuration file '/etc/Muttrc.d/charset.rc'.
Reading configuration file '/etc/Muttrc.d/colors.rc'.
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 1
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 2
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 3
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 4
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 5
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 6
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 7
mutt_alloc_color(): Color pairs used so far: 8
Reading configuration file '/etc/Muttrc.d/compressed-folders.rc'.
Reading configuration file '/etc/Muttrc.d/gpg.rc'.
Reading configuration file '/etc/Muttrc.d/smime-paths.rc'.
Reading configuration file '/home/aaron/.muttrc'.
mx_get_magic(): unable to stat /var/mail/aaron: No such file or directory (errno 2).
/var/mail/aaron: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
/var/mail/aaron: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
Help much appreciated.
