Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-24 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and >> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? > > One is a symbolic link: > > ls -l /var/spool/mail > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 03:30 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail Ah, stupid me; I only checke

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-23 Thread Adam Warner
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 00:48, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By default (at least on Woody) exim puts mail in /var/mail/ > > (note the absence of /spool/) > > I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and > /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? The

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-23 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default (at least on Woody) exim puts mail in /var/mail/ > (note the absence of /spool/) I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? The file sizes are equal, so they appear to be identical twins. An

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
> > is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found' so where is my mail By default (at least on Woody) exim puts mail in /var/mail/ (note the absence of /spool/) You might check to see if your mail is in there. If so, just point mutt to the correct location. hth --kurt

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
o: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Stuart Luscombe/COSS/CCenter) Subject: Re: Help needed getting mail working. On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:19:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. > > I colle

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:19:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. > > I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs > through > and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Ross
> > I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. > > I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs > through > and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just vanish, as when I run mutt, > all I get > is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found'