Well, I was desperate. Setting chmod +s didn't solve my read-only
mailbox problem.
And pine can still deal with the mailbox properly, so I've obviously
screwed up mutt somehow -- which I guess is no surprise, seeing as it
worked before, out of the TurboLinux 3.6 box.
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:28:31PM -0700, David Benfell wrote:
>
> Whoops! I see I sent the attached to a wrong address -- why would that
> be in the muttrc file that came with the distribution?
> --
> David Benfell
> ---
> In your 30's, you discover that life is boring.
> In your 40's, you decide that's probably for the best.
> After that, you have fond memories of the life you never had.
>
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:24:51 -0700
> From: David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: mutt-1.0pre2i.tar.gz installation
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mail-Followup-To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i
> X-From: David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> Silly me, I should have saved more of the mail regarding the latest
> version of mutt:
>
> 1) The configure and install seemingly went in painlessly. I did notice
> a bunch of complaints about missing characters which I presume to be
> because I didn't configure the kernel to support every character set on
> the planet.
>
> 2) I had just installed gnupg. This was my motivation for getting an
> international version of mutt. But when I started mutt up, it didn't
> recognize any of the gpg variables I had inserted in my muttrc.
>
> 3) And now, HELP!!! It says my mailbox is read-only. I specifically
> remember someone here saying it's a bad idea to make mutt run as root,
> so I'm not doing that (at least not yet.) But I look at the
> /var/spool/mail/benfell file and it looks to me like the permission is
> set to 640, which seems sensible to me:
>
> [benfell@phantom benfell]$ ls -al /var/spool/mail/
> total 22
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 3 14:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Aug 14 07:50 ..
> -rw-r----- 1 benfell mail 18640 Sep 3 14:07 benfell
> -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp mail 0 Aug 14 07:43 fax
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 12 16:01 root
>
> I used defaults in configuring mutt. Here is:
>
> [benfell@phantom benfell]$ mutt -v
> Mutt 1.0pre2i (1999-08-31)
> Copyright (C) 1996-9 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
>
> System: Linux 2.2.12 [using ncurses 4.2]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> -USE_IMAP -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR
> +HAVE_GPG -BUFFY_SIZE
> -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
> SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
> ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
> _PGPPATH="/usr/local/bin/gpg"
> _PGPGPGPATH="/usr/local/bin/gpg"
> To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> and if it matters:
>
> [benfell@phantom benfell]$ uname -a
> Linux phantom.kparker.org 2.2.12 #1 Sun Aug 29 03:02:29 PDT 1999 i586
> unknown
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> --
> David Benfell
> ---
> In your 30's, you discover that life is boring.
> In your 40's, you decide that's probably for the best.
> After that, you have fond memories of the life you never had.
>
--
David Benfell
---
In your 30's, you discover that life is boring.
In your 40's, you decide that's probably for the best.
After that, you have fond memories of the life you never had.
