Am 2012-06-25 12:55, schrieb Doug Laidlaw:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100
Anne Wilson<[email protected]> wrote:
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Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message that it
couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the exact words).
Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched that, owned
anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is "Unable to
truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne".
I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked there,
and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I guess something has
changed wrt local mail. Are we now talking about
~/.local/share/local-mail/ ? What do I need to do now?
Anne
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/var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne. Thunderbird
will be putting your mail somewhere else. I suspect that it will be a
dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a subdirectory of
your .mozilla directory.
I think that TB uses the mbox file format. That means that your inbox
will be one big file. Perhaps TB is trying to delete the old mails,
hence "truncate."
HTH,
Doug.
Try a look in the folder: /home/.thunderbird/w18nngb3.defaul/Mail.
I cant say what under .thunderbird is the same on you install. In the
folder Mail I have four subfolders and one of this has the name as the
Server name in the Server-adjustment for the POP-Server. Here I found
the files for my folders (if created to sort mails). I hope this helps
Norbert
