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Can't access localmail



Mark,

The culprit was MAIL in /etc/profile. It was pointing to Qmail's mailbox, which was ~/Maildir.
I got that resolved. Thanks for the suggestion thought.

Subba Rao
subb3 at ibm.net
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:54:09 -0600 (EST), Mark Donnelly wrote:

>At a guess, you've got mutt and elm configured to look for Maildir.  Easy
>way to test it:
>
>> grep -i Maildir ~/.muttrc
>
>(or whatever the mutt configuration file is)
>
>I'm fairly certain that the problem is in the home directory, rather than
>in /etc, since you said that you've replaced the installation, which would
>probbly mean replacing /etc.
>
>HTH,
>--Mark
>
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