Hi, Probably the same as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004484 which points to the possible problem source and also a temporary solution.
Regards, Patrice On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:04:33 +0100 Adrian Immanuel Kiess <adr...@mx.aik.onl> wrote: > Package: evolution > Version: 3.43.2-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > Upgrading Evolution some months ago > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > apt -u dist-upgrade > * What was the outcome of this action? > Evolution is unable to lock the mbox file in /var/mail/adrian and reports > error > * What outcome did you expect instead? > Evolution being able to read and lock mbox mail file in /var/mail > > in the recent Evolution mail reader on Debian/testing, I can't read my local > mails stored in /var/mail/adrian. > > The error Evolution spits out is this: > > Failed to refresh folder “adr...@lan.dac : INBOX”. > > The reported error was “Could not lock “/var/mail/adrian””. > > Here is the directory listing of /var/mail on my system: > > root@g6 /var/mail # ls -lah > total 1,4M > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4,0K 28 févr. 07:43 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4,0K 18 oct. 11:49 ../ > -rw-rw---- 1 adrian mail 0 28 févr. 07:44 adrian > > Reading the mail with Sylpheed works fine. > > I searched the Internet with Google, but could not find a solution. > > I would be very gladful for help or fix. > > Sincerely, > > Adrian Kiess > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bookworm/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages evolution depends on: