Sam --
...and then Sam Roberts said...
% mutt says my /usr/spool/mail/sam spool file is read-only, any
% idea why? It's only used for local-to-my-machine mail, but
% I'd like to have it be read/write.
The most likely reason is because your mutt_dotlock program has not been
installed with special permissions and your spool directory is locked so
that only the mail group can do any writing in there -- like creating a
dot lock file.
You should have something like
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 28323 Mar 29 1999 mutt_dotlock*
if your spool dir looks like
drwxrwxr-t 2 root mail 2048 Apr 5 00:47 /var/spool/mail/
or close to it.
%
% For incoming mail I'm working around this by having a =spool mailbox
% in ~/Mail/spool, and I get my mail from a pop server when I'm
% in that mailbox, but it's a little strange. Is some kind of
% file-locking being triggered that's not working?
Yes and no, I'd say, based on the above.
%
% I'm using 1.0.1i, btw, on QNX4.
%
% Sam
%
% --
% Sam Roberts, sroberts at uniserve dot com, www.emyr.net/Sam
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