On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Tuesday, 02 May 2000 at 13:10, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in all version since 1.1.3 (up to 1.1.12) I get these messages when mutt
> > starts and ends:
> >
> > Error creating
> > /var/spool/mail/rz2a022.lock.956910752.49678.rzaixsrv2.rrz.uni-hamburg.de:
> > Permission denied
> >
> > where rz2a022 is my imap account, rzaixsrv2 the imap server. The imap
> > related entries in my .muttrc are
> >
> > set spoolfile={rzaixsrv2}/var/spool/mail/rz2a022
> > set imap_user="rz2a022"
> >
> > Apart from the message, mutt seems to work properly, but the message
> > sucks, and I didn't get it in 1.1.2. Any ideas what to do?
>
> Your IMAP server is somewhat misconfigured. You have two options:
>
> 1. fix your server - probably it's running as uid rz2a022 and the
> spool directory isn't world writable. Getting UW to run setgid mail is
> possible, but a hassle.
>
> 2. make mutt ignore the error messages, as 1.1.2 used to do:
> unset $imap_servernoise
Thanks. The problem apparently resulted from a discrepancy between the
local /var/spool/mail directory (which was world writeable) and the imap
server's directory (which isn't). Unfortunately 'configure' only tests
the local one. After performing a 'chmod o-w' on the local
/var/spool/mail and reinstalling mutt, everything works fine again.
Regards,
Bernd
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Bernd Eggink
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