On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > * 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?
no, its owned by root,root. There are no suid bits set as for vim and I changed permission of the directory and everything works fine. > as for vim - if it allows writing to the mail spool > then you can have lots of fun with it... If you think about using vim as a mail client, I don't think about fun ;-) jochen -- ---------------------------------------- jochen issing mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mcf-music.de GPG:0A121BC ----------------------------------------
