On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:41:37PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Dear debian-user, > > After running elm (version elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+65-0.slink.0) for the > first time yesterday it created the following file in my home directory: > drwx--S--- myusername myusername 1024 Aug 19 18:29 Mail/ > which is supposed to be for incoming mail. Please note the capital S. > Furthermore there was no .elm/elmrc configuration file yesterday, but > today there were two of them: elmrc and elmrc.old ... > Now when I try to receive e-mail via fetchmail it opens the elm-display, > the incoming messages move quickly by - no chance to read them - then it > says they are "flushed" and it seems that they are gone forever... > But that's not all: After about a dozen of messages elm asks to create > a folder with a funny name which seems to be a substring of some part > of the received mail. This looks like: > rom: "Boy George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > or similar in my home directory, which is again drwx--S--- ... > And yet some other weird stuff: I checked my elmrc configuration file > and found some options being replaced by text which seems to have been > taken from the mail. I reedited the file, ran fetchmail again, but with > the same "flushing", with elm asking me to create a "funny" folder and > with similar "funny" text entries in elmrc. > > I would like to know: > - What does the capital S mean?
Set Group Id for all files put in ~/Mail to match ~/Mail. This is normal. > - How can I configure elm properly? -In the User's Guide it is said to > run "Configure" which is presumably a shellscript but I haven't found > it anywhere. Your description of fetchmail opening an elm display does not jibe with my experience in using fetchmail. Generally fetchmail polls a POP or IMAP server for mail and delivers it to the local smtp server. The mail should be delivered to /var/mail/<user> if everything is configured properly. Do you have a ~/.forward file that may be causing weird behavior? -- Copyright © 2000 Megalomania Industries, Inc.
