On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 03:14:11PM -0400, David Thorburn-Gundlach
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> Raju --
>
> ...and then Raju K. V. said...
> % hi,
> %
> % yes, I installed mutt as root. here is the ls -l o/p of /usr/local/bin
> % where mutt is installed:
> %
> % (earth)ls -l /usr/local/bin
> % total 3031
> % -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 3047603 Aug 28 19:01 mutt*
> % -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 54665 Aug 28 19:01 mutt_dotlock*
> %
> % Also ls -l o/p of /var/mail/root is
> % (earth)ls -l /var/mail/root
> % -rwxrwxr-x 1 root mail 2694 Aug 28 19:04 /var/mail/root
>
> Aha -- I didn't realize that you were root for this case. There
> certainly shouldn't be any problem with permissions in this case :-)
> Is your /var/mail remotely mounted, by the way?
>
Anyway I solved the problem by disabling USE_DOTLOCK (in config.h). I
know this is an ugly hack, but I had no other way.
>
> %
> % I still cannot delete mails from my mailbox. The same error "Mailbox is
> % readonly"
>
> This is all I can imagine...
>
>
> %
> % Also any hint on why mails cannot be sent with mutt? I can send mails
> % using pine or elm.
>
> Not yet; tell us more about your mail setup (sendmail, qmail, *) and
> your sendmail variable in .muttrc and maybe even whether or not a user
> can send/receive mail...
>
I spent a long time looking into this problem. When I was reading the
man page of mailx, I came to know that our site uses rmail and not
sendmail for sending mails. I changed the sendmail variable to
/bin/rmail in .muttrc and the problem was solved.
>
> %
> % Thanks in advance,
> % Raju
>
>
> :-D
thanks for all your help.
Regards,
Raju
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