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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>touch command doesn't work<br></div><div><br></div><div>chris@q4os-desktop:~$ touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail<br></div><div><br></div><div>touch: cannot touch '/home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail': No such file or directory<br></div><div><br></div><div>chris@q4os-desktop:~$ cd /home/chris<br></div><div><br></div><div>chris@q4os-desktop:~$ touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail<br></div><div><br></div><div>touch: cannot touch '/home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail': No such file or directory<br></div><div>chris@q4os-desktop:~$<br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Jun 6, 2024, at 10:54 PM, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>> [Can't open /home/chris/maildrop: not a selectable folder]<br></div><div><br></div><div>It looks like /home/chris/maildrop is a directory in your file system. As <br></div><div>such it is not a location that can be used to save messages. However, an <br></div><div>empty file would work, for example, /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail. Make <br></div><div>sure you create an empty file<br></div><div><br></div><div>touch /home/chris/maildrop/sent-mail<br></div><div><br></div><div>before you create the maidrop in Alpine.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Eduardo<br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Alpine-info mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:Alpine-info@u.washington.edu">Alpine-info@u.washington.edu</a><br></div><div><a href="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>