Hi, bill. Thanks for correcting my typo. However, the default path is failing. Any suggestions on how to fix this? ----- Original Message ----- From: William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 <wacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:13 PM Subject: Re: Invalid inbox. > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
