I managed to totally mess up my mail spools while moving my Debian system to anothe hard drive. Several other things were also messed up because I left off an option related to permissions on cp, and reintalling those packages fixed the problem, but in this case it did not work.
When I try to run elm, it tells me "Waiting to read mailbox while
mail is being received" This worked before I moved the system over.
Several other mailers bomb out, so I know it isn't elm. Also, root
reads his mail spool OK with elm, so the problem is confined to
my personal one.
I've reinstalled smail and base and relentlessy changed the
permissions of everything in /var. root can't even send a message to
user stephen. It appears that there is either a stale lockfile
sitting around, or somebody's permissions went wacko. Does
anyone have any ideas how to fix this or what my problem could be?
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