All I can tell you is the message that showed up while installing Netscape. It said (in effect) that the external movemail program should be set to /usr/lib/netscape/movemail
I haven't started playing around with mail configuration yet so haven't gotten around to this point in my own setup. (I have to convert mailbox format for Windows first to ensure that I can get to the mail from both Windows and Linux - and/or I have to install Wine so I can continue to run my current client). On 10 Apr 99, at 17:52, Jesse Evans wrote about How to use Netscape mail w/local ma: > Folks, > > I've got Netscape 4.5 installed on my slink system. How do I get > Netscape Mail to read from my local mail spool? I use a dial-up connection and > have fetchmail set to periodically grab mail from my ISP POP account. This > ends > up putting mail in my system's /var/spool/mail/<my_user_name> directory, from > which I can access it using mutt, Kmail, or whatever. Most of the mail client > programs I've experimented with have an option to be set up for this with no > problems (for instance, KMail has a "Use Local Mail" choice which works just > fine), but Netscape doesn't seem to capable of doing this. > > In Preferences>Mail & Newsgroups->Mail Servers I've selected Using > Movemail->Use Built-in Movemail. When I ask for a new mail check, I get an > error message complaining that Netscape cannot write to my mail directory. (It > says it needs to write lock files.) It suggests that I set the permission of > that directory to 01777 (it's currently -rw-rw----), but doing so (it > becomes -rw-rw-rwT) does not correct the problem. It also says that an > external > setgid/setuid Movemail program could be used in the event that all else fails > and refers me to the Release Notes for more info. > > Well, the Release Notes don't cover this and I don't know what might > qualify for an external movemail program. Has anyone out there in Debian-land > made this feature work? Thanks in advance for all your help. > > -- > 'til next we type... > HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse ============================== Jan M. - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint:397D 093C E802 964E 5316 B90A 93CE 6696 Thought for the day: Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. --Lily Tomlin
