* jochen issing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-25 16:25]: > > 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. > 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.
check the permissions on the binary of mutt 1.3.28 then. is it owned by root:other? as for vim - if it allows writing to the mail spool then you can have lots of fun with it... Sven
