On Tue, 8 Oct 2007, andrew wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble getting mutt to read my mail spool:
>
> /var/spool/mail/username
>
> Mail is delivered there by getmail / procmail and can be read by text
> editor but not by mutt. I have specified the spool in ~/.bashrc as
> well as in ~/.muttrc (covering all options).
>
> I have tried various permissions on the spool but I am keen to set
> these correctly. Can someone suggest the correct permissions?
>
> Andrew
>

chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail

The user spool is typically mode 600 and is owned normally by
username.mail

>

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Cheers
Res