On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 15:03:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:58:18PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge:
> > > chmod 1777 /var/tmp
> >
> > Yes, that works, of course! But I do not understand why the settings are
> > wrong.
>
> You said you've got /var on a separate
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:58:18PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Greg Wooledge:
> > chmod 1777 /var/tmp
>
> Yes, that works, of course! But I do not understand why the settings are
> wrong.
You said you've got /var on a separate partition. Was it always that
way (i.e. you created a /var partition during
Greg Wooledge:
chmod 1777 /var/tmp
Yes, that works, of course! But I do not understand why the settings are
wrong. I never changed these, so this could only be happened at some
upgrade, but the this should be discovered by other people, too.
However, maybe other applications do never use /va
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:06:26PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> No, it is not /tmp, but /var/tmp. See here from the output:
> [2021-11-11 22:08:39] ../../mbox.c:895: mutt_mktemp returns "/var/tmp/mutt-
> protheus2-1000-47311-14301765248385272183".
> [2021-11-11 22:08:39] Temporärdatei konnte nicht erzeugt
Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2021, 21:53:53 CET schrieb Greg Wooledge:
No, it is not /tmp, but /var/tmp. See here from the output:
[2021-11-11 22:08:33] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.
[2021-11-11 22:08:33] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.
[2021-11-11 22:08:36] mutt_index_menu[807]: Got op
On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 15:53:53 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 02:48:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > There should be some indication at this point of why it can't
> > delete your emails. The reason you see the filename
> > /home/username/.mutt-cache/scratchpad/mutt-hostn
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 02:48:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> There should be some indication at this point of why it can't
> delete your emails. The reason you see the filename
> /home/username/.mutt-cache/scratchpad/mutt-hostname… above is
> that I have set tmpdir="$HOME/.mutt-cache/scratchpad"
On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 16:16:58 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2021, 15:38:34 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> [ … ] This is step-by-step what I do:
>
> Starting mutt from the commandline as normal user. Mutt in ncurses appears.
> Now I want to mark and delete all mails. I press S
On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 17:17:19 (+0100), Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Hans wrote:
> >
> > I answer yes, and it appears "temporary file could not be created".
> >
> > Pressing again "q" and now answer "no", mutt closes.
> >
> > Does this help?
>
> check the ownership/permissions on /
On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 17:04:59 (+0100), Tixy wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 17:48 +0200, Hans wrote:
> > Oh, and I forgot to mention or make clear:
> >
> > The file /var/mail/myusername does not be reduzed to 0, and as the user
> > myusername I can not manually delete this file, although (if I a
On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Hans wrote:
I answer yes, and it appears "temporary file could not be created".
Pressing again "q" and now answer "no", mutt closes.
Does this help?
check the ownership/permissions on /tmp
Should be:
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 8192 Oct 28 17:05 .
I've noticed some iss
On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 17:48 +0200, Hans wrote:
> Oh, and I forgot to mention or make clear:
>
> The file /var/mail/myusername does not be reduzed to 0, and as the user
> myusername I can not manually delete this file, although (if I am not
> wrong!),
> I should be able to, as it is rw for me.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 05:48:31PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> Oh, and I forgot to mention or make clear:
>
> The file /var/mail/myusername does not be reduzed to 0, and as the user
> myusername I can not manually delete this file, although (if I am not
> wrong!),
> I should be able to, as it is rw f
Oh, and I forgot to mention or make clear:
The file /var/mail/myusername does not be reduzed to 0, and as the user
myusername I can not manually delete this file, although (if I am not wrong!),
I should be able to, as it is rw for me.
Something special (maybe this is important): The directory
Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2021, 16:48:20 CEST schrieb David Wright:
Thank you for all the help! First of all, I checked, if there is a nuttrc in my
~/HOME, but there is
none. But there is a Muttrc (yes, with capital letter) below /etc, so I suppose
this takes the
control.
However, I never cha
On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 10:33:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> I'm wondering, in particular, if there is some setting in mutt that
> tells it to attempt to delete the inbox file if it reaches 0 messages,
> and that perhaps you've enabled it. If so, you'll want to disable it.
That /would/ be a bu
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 04:16:58PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2021, 15:38:34 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> Hi Greg,
>
> of course I can. This is step-by-step what I do:
>
> Starting mutt from the commandline as normal user. Mutt in ncurses appears.
> Now I want to mark and
On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 16:16:58 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2021, 15:38:34 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> [ … ] This is step-by-step what I do:
>
> Starting mutt from the commandline as normal user. Mutt in ncurses appears.
> Now I want to mark and delete all mails. I press S
nslated by me).
I answer yes, and it appears "temporary file could not be created".
Pressing again "q" and now answer "no", mutt closes.
Does this help?
Best regards
Hans
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:21:47PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
&
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:21:47PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I got into an issue with mutt. Problem is, mutt can not delete mails and I
> myself can not delete
> the file below /var/mail/.
You are not *supposed* to delete your entire inbox file. You're only
s
Hi folks,
I got into an issue with mutt. Problem is, mutt can not delete mails and I
myself can not delete
the file below /var/mail/.
So I believe, this might be a settings problem, however on my other
32-bit-system it is working.
Only on my 64-bit systems it is not working.
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