Mutt

[Lord_Override]

I want to use Mutt as an email program, I can send messages fine but I just can't receive any. I have my .muttrc file set up with pop3 information but am I right in thinking Mutt uses exim or sendmail to send and receive messages? I guess I have exim set up to send messages because I can do that fine but if I managed to get exim set up to receive messages would I be able to use Mutt to get them or can it do it on its own (I have the pop related variables set in the .muttrc file) if it can do it on its own how do I do it? When I start mutt it says /var/spool/mail/User: No such file or directory (errno = 2)

IF I enabled exim to get pop3 mail would that file be created? If it wouldnt, how is that file created?

Just to sum things up.
I have a pop3 account that is the only place I get mail from, I dont use internal mail on the system and I want to use Mutt to get this pop3 mail, how do I do this? Via the .muttrc file or via the exim program?
Thank You

[Gnu/Vince]

To get mail, I suggest you get the best mail retriever in the world: fetchmail. Install it and configure it, and when new mail comes in, mutt will see it

[Lord_Override]

Thanks a lot, I got fetchmail and installed it and so far I think its working, I ran it as a user and it reported that it had retreived an email but here's a dumb question, where does it put it? I ran mutt and it didnt see it, I looked in /var/spool/mail/user and there was nothing there, is it supposed to be?
Thank You

[Lord_Override]

I looked at the exim queue and nothing at all has been sent, I guess thats why its not arriving so the problem must be with exim. In the log file I have lots of errors like this:

2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UpXz-00003Z-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UpY0-00003j-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15Upff-00003a-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UqOP-0000E3-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UsXQ-0000RA-00 Message is frozen
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UwEc-0001oP-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UzKx-00005X-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UyMP-0004Cs-00 Message is frozen
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15UzBR-0004MU-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15V049-0000Cj-00 == root@debian T=local_delivery defer (-43): Retry time not yet reached
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15V03v-0000Cd-00 Message is frozen
2001-08-10 01:08:01 15V0jb-0000Oz-00 Message
is frozen
2001-08-10 01:08:01 End queue run: pid=1631

What can I do about this?
There's also permission denied erros when trying to create lockfiles.
Thank You

[ 09 August 2001: Message edited by: Lord_Override ]

[fow99]

Fetchmail can be installed in normal user mode. I think you probably didn't configured it correctly.