On 2015-06-13 21:59 -0700, Tom Fowle wrote: Tom> I often save individual incomming emails in seperate files in my Tom> home directory with the mutt "s" command. In any session, the Tom> first time I save to a particular file it goes fine. However if I Tom> try to save another message to the same file, I get "Permission Tom> denied."
Tom> checking the permission of the file it is -rw- --- --- Tom> I can, of course open another console and chmod to correct this Tom> without leaving mutt, but I don't recall this problem with my Tom> previously installed old fedora. Wait, something is odd here. Are you running mutt as a different user? If not, why would it have any trouble writing to a file with 0600 permissions? Those two bits are _user_ read and write, after all. I think you should attack this angle before you try to change the permissions. strace may be your friend. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.
