On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:38:58PM +0000, Peter Watson wrote: > My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would like to > read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account which reads from > /var/spool/mail/username, this is ok except that when I try to get mail I > receive a message "could not lock /var/spool/mail/username". > > If I change the permissioms on /var/spool/mail/ to let others write entries > everything works fine for a while until something (?msec) changes the > permissions back to what they were. > > Can anyone tell me an elegant solution to this problem please? > -- > Regards > > Pete > Ardnamurchan Scotland
Sylpheed :) Does Kmail give you the option to specify that it's a local account (as opposed to POP3 or IMAP)? Todd
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