[bug-mailutils] mail doesn't list messages

[Giorgos Anastasiou]

Hello,

I am trying to use mailutils for local mail delivery in a gentoo server. I used to have installed bsd-mailx for the same purpose. I thought that mail is used the same way as the equivalent software bsd-mailx.
If i run mail then i get No mail for user, but i can see in the spool that there are email in the spooler(/var/mail/$USER). Do i have to configure anything else?

My configuration is the following:

poseidon ~ # mu --show-config-options
VERSION=2.99.98     - Version of this package
SYSCONFDIR=/etc     - System configuration directory
MAILSPOOLDIR=/var/spool/mail/     - Default mail spool directory
SCHEME=mbox     - Default mailbox type
LOG_FACILITY=mail     - Default syslog facility
IPV6     - IPv6 support
USE_LIBPAM     - PAM support
HAVE_LIBLTDL     - a portable `dlopen' wrapper library
WITH_BDB     - Berkeley DB
WITH_GDBM     - GNU DBM
WITH_GNUTLS     - TLS support using GNU TLS
WITH_PTHREAD     - Support for POSIX threads
WITH_READLINE     - GNU Readline
HAVE_MYSQL     - MySQL
WITH_LDAP
WITH_LIBWRAP     - Support for TCP wrappers
ENABLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS     - Support for virtual mail domains
ENABLE_IMAP     - IMAP4 protocol support
ENABLE_POP     - POP3 protocol support
ENABLE_MH     - MH mail storage support
ENABLE_MAILDIR     - Maildir mail storage support
ENABLE_SMTP     - SMTP protocol support
ENABLE_SENDMAIL     - Sendmail command line interface support

Any suggestion why mail doesn't show me the mails from /var/spool/mail/$USER?

Thanks in advance