Edmund --
...and then Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS said...
% When I run mutt I find myself looking at /var/spool/mail/edmund. I
% can't delete anything because "Mailbox is read-only". Can someone tell
% me what I should do? Should I arrange for mail to be transferred from
% /var/spool/mail/edmund to somewhere else? How? Does mutt do this, or
% some other program?
Although you didn't provide details on what version of mutt you're
using, I bet that you're using a fairly recent one without having the
little mutt_dotlock program properly installed. Back in the early
.90s, the suid requirements were taken out of mutt and put into
mutt_dotlock, which only exists to lock and unlock mailboxes in a
directory such as you have listed (where only the mail group can
write).
If you're the SysAdmin, then have a look at mutt_dotlock ownership and
permissions (or, for an older version like 0.88, if you just refuse to
upgrade :-) at mutt itself).
HTH
:-D
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