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fetchmail working but mutt not showing messages

Asked by camerondtrain

I installed mutt using the guide here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MuttAndGmail

When I type "fetchmail -v" (without the quotes) fetchmail seems to log in and find messages and download them but they don't show up in mutt. I feel like something may be wrong in procmail.

The procmail log lists the emails being moved to /var/mail/ubuntu (ubuntu is my username). This is not where mutt is looking for mail, but I can't see where in the procmail configuration file is telling them to go there.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Cameron Devine

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Have you checked your muttrc to see where must is storing it's emails?

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camerondtrain (camerondtrain) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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camerondtrain (camerondtrain) said : 		#3

I had accidentally set the spoolfile to /var/spool/mail/cameron not /var/spool/mail/ubuntu.

Thank you for helping me.

Cameron