On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Johannes Zellner wrote: > Hi,
> I've the following permissions ($USER == joze) > -rw--w---- 1 y1zln mail 508 Feb 7 09:10 /var/mail/joze > drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 8192 Feb 7 09:09 /var/mail > I can't change anything at /var/mail as I've no root priviledges. > I found out, that the lock file can't be created in /var/mail and > therefore my mailbox is opened read-only. I've also found a hack > set dotlock_program="true" > as mutt checks the return status of the dotlock_program. > My question: is there a 'clean' way, that is for example creating a > lock file in a $USER readable directory ? I ran into that myself, so I simply set a spool file in my home directory, and had procmail deliver my mail to that spool instead of the default. Works very well. Knute
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