On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:33:24PM +0200, jochen issing wrote: > Hi List, > > after my recent update to 1.4i, I am not able able to remove any mails > out of my spool files. I can open /var/mail/jochen with vim and can > write it, but mutt refuses writing. > I found in the internet the configure switch --enable-extern-dotlock > and compiled it once more, but this did not help. > I am using debian woody stable. Ah, I have solved the Problem!! It was the directory access to /var/mail, which was rwxrwxr-x and I have been "other". Hence, I actually was not able to write into the directory. I find it quite interesting that mutt 1.4i has a problem with it and vim and my old mutt (1.3.28?) not.
Thanks so far to Sven and David!! -- ---------------------------------------- jochen issing mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mcf-music.de GPG:0A121BC ----------------------------------------
