Package: s-nail Version: 14.8.5-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
trying to read local mails in /var/mail with mailx fails with output as follows: Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/<user>" ..... Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/<user>" ..... Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied (where I replaced the user name with "<user>"). Any ideas? Regards, jvp. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages s-nail depends on: ii base-files 9.5 ii libc6 2.21-1 ii libcomerr2 1.42.13-1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.13.2+dfsg-4 ii libidn11 1.32-3 ii libk5crypto3 1.13.2+dfsg-4 ii libkrb5-3 1.13.2+dfsg-4 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2d-3 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-2 s-nail recommends no packages. Versions of packages s-nail suggests: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.86-7 -- no debconf information
