[Alpine-info] Can not create second INBOX in mix format

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

I don't know about MIX or mailutil, but I have suggested a few things
here:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:


> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:

> 

> > You must already have a file or directory called INBOX in your home

> > directory.

> 

> If there is anyone I hesitate to disagree with it's you -- but I don't

> have a file or directory named INBOX. 


It could be in a default place mailutil is checking (or rather probably
its libraries or reference code, same as alpine will be using).
 

> Moreover this happens for any user. I just created a new,empty home

> directory for our test account, same behavior. I see this behavior on

> alpine 2.00 self-compiled on Solaris 8, and under Linux from the

> current Fedora 10 package (alpine-2.00-1.fc10.i386 and

> uw-imap-utils.i386 0:2007d-1.fc10).

> 

> A simple mailutil test:

> 

>   [westnet]:~$ find . -iname '*INBOX*' -print


You're not checking /var/mail/$USER or in fact anything outside of ~/
 

>   [westnet]:~$ mailutil create '#driver.mix/INBOX'

>   Can't create mailbox INBOX: mailbox already exists


It's at this point that I would check if mailutil took parameters to
increase verbosity, if not I'd run it under truss or strace, which
should quickly show exactly where mailutil is attempting to create your
INBOX.  Once you find that you can remove and go.

Oh, and I've checked and I have a copy of mailutil installed and
-verbose is a flag, as is -debug.  Mine doesn't have the mix driver*.
Anyway strace is your friend.
 
Damion