On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
> This is strange. I changed my spoolfile from a local file to
> /var/mail/msoulier, which I have write permission to:
>
> [bmerh56e-msoulier-mail]$ ll
> total 1282
> -rw-rw---- 1 msoulier mail 65556 Jul 5 14:21 msoulier
>
> And yet, mutt won't modify the contents, because it says that the file is
> read only??
>
> Elm likes it fine. What would cause this?
Locking. For Mutt's dotlocking to work, your /var/spool/mail directory
should be writable by group `mail', and your `mutt_dotlock' should be
sgid mail.
HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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