On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Deb Teale wrote: > > > The mbox exists, is readable, etc, but is not appendable. > > Why is that? > I guess I was confirming whether indeed the operation was non-standard or just > overlooked. In the case of reading mail, IMAP goes to the mbox (always > exists) when it find no spool entry, but in the case of appending it isn't > doing that--it stops with that error and I guess I was looking for an answer > to where that might be fixable.
Let's back up a moment. Are you saying that the mbox file is write-locked? If so, how do you expect writes to work to it? If you are saying that appends to a write-enabled mbox don't work, I can't reproduce that problem. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
