Hello, i'm the codebase maintainer of S-nail, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote: |Package: s-nail |Version: 14.8.5-3
|trying to read local mails in /var/mail with mailx fails with output as |follows: | |Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/<user>" ..... |Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied |(where I replaced the user name with "<user>"). |Any ideas? S-nail ships with a special, privilege-separated program that must be installed SETUID root; it seems Debian installs this program as "/usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep". Doing "$ ls -latr" on this should give output like -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 21856 Sep 11 16:09 s-nail-privsep* i.e., SETUID root, executable for anyone, "$ chmod 4555 FILE" as root (via super / sudo / su as necessary) will do. Note that v14.8.5 doesn't take into account readonly filesystems: v14.9 will special treat errors caused by this condition instead. It really should work fine otherwise? --steffen
