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    From M.R.P.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 6 22:40:39 2020
    Hello I have installed mutt on linux and when I run it get the message.no mailbox /var/mail/zenkde: no such file or directory. What do i need to
    create and were is the best place on my system for mutt config files.

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  • From Rathbone@21:1/5 to M.R.P. on Sun Jun 7 05:13:01 2020
    On 2020-06-06, M.R.P. wrote:
    Hello I have installed mutt on linux and when I run it get the message.no mailbox /var/mail/zenkde: no such file or directory. What do i need to
    create and were is the best place on my system for mutt config files.

    This is a big and broad question. When you start up mutt, it's trying to
    read your standard UNIX mailspool, which must not exist because you
    haven't configured an MTA to deliver mail there.

    If you're interested in learning about and configuring mutt, I would
    start with this website:

    http://mutt.postle.net/

    It's a bit old at this point, but it is still helpful to get you into
    the mindset of what mutt is, what it isn't, and how to get started.

    From there, you can move on to the mutt manual, which may have come with
    mutt on your distribution, but if not, you can view it here:

    http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/

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  • From Jorgen Grahn@21:1/5 to Rathbone on Sun Jun 7 06:00:14 2020
    On Sun, 2020-06-07, Rathbone wrote:
    On 2020-06-06, M.R.P. wrote:
    Hello I have installed mutt on linux and when I run it get the message.no
    mailbox /var/mail/zenkde: no such file or directory. What do i need to
    create and were is the best place on my system for mutt config files.

    This is a big and broad question. When you start up mutt, it's trying to
    read your standard UNIX mailspool, which must not exist because you
    haven't configured an MTA to deliver mail there.

    Or he has, but noone has sent any mail to it ...

    [snip links to documentation]

    The traditional Unix way of dealing with mail is letting the system
    handle it. An MTA puts incoming mail in /var/mail/$USER; calling /usr/lib/sendmail makes the MTA send a mail. Then people can use Mutt
    or any traditional mailer they prefer.

    Later mailers began to handle remote mailboxes using POP3 or IMAP, and
    send mail using SMTP. And mutt added support for such things too.

    There are a number of options:

    - Configure your Linux system (your MTA) the traditional way. This
    may mean running fetchmail or something to drain remote mailboxes
    into your local MTA.

    - Skip that and configure Mutt to use IMAP or whatever you have.

    In that scenario you should at least make local->local mail work the
    traditional way, so that utilities like cron and at can send mail to
    zenkden when something goes wrong -- and ensure that Mutt still can
    show the system mailbox.

    I have always done it the traditional way, but I suspect most don't.

    /Jorgen

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  • From Volker Englisch@21:1/5 to M.R.P. on Sun Jun 7 17:50:55 2020
    M.R.P. schrieb am 06.06.2020:
    Hello I have installed mutt on linux and when I run it get the message.no mailbox /var/mail/zenkde: no such file or directory. What do i need to
    create

    # touch /var/mail/zenkde
    # chown zenkde /var/mail/zenkde

    and maybe a chmod 600 too.

    Like the others stated, there is no such file, because noone sent you
    some mail yet.

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  • From downtime null@21:1/5 to M.R.P. on Sat Aug 15 01:22:49 2020
    M.R.P. <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> wrote:
    Hello I have installed mutt on linux and when I run it get the message.no mailbox /var/mail/zenkde: no such file or directory. What do i need to
    create and were is the best place on my system for mutt config files.

    What exactly are you trying to do? Mutt and Neomutt are extremely
    configurable and flexible MUAs, meaning that if you want anything more
    than the very basic, default functionality, you will have to configure
    it. This is typically in ~/.muttrc or similar. If you are trying to
    check mail on an IMAP server, you will have to setup that account
    information in the Mutt config. I would recommend using Neomutt, unless
    you have some reason for wanting to use Mutt specifically, and referring
    to the guide at https://neomutt.org/guide/. That will get you started.

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