Re: Spoolfile permissions

1999-09-02 Thread David DeSimone
Dennis Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got a seemingly major problem with my spoolfile. The permissions > are 600 and the file belongs to me, but mutt just keeps telling me > that the mailbox is readonly. The mutt_dotlock program needs permission to create a dot-lock file in the mail

Re: Spoolfile permissions

1999-09-02 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Dennis -- Take a look at your spool dir permissions and the mode of mutt_dotlock (you are using a fairly recent version of mutt, aren't you?). mutt itself does not need to be set with any special permissions, while mutt_dotlock should be root.mail and 02555 (g+s); you rmail spool is probably als

Spoolfile permissions

1999-09-02 Thread Dennis Hammer
Hi. I've got a seemingly major problem with my spoolfile. The permissions are 600 and the file belongs to me, but mutt just keeps telling me that the mailbox is readonly. When I use pine, there are no problems. But I want to use mutt, pine sucks :-) Does anyone have a clue as to where the soluti