Permissions on directory reset as per Alex' warning.
I'll look into getting the certificate, noting that many sites I go to
these days squawk about outdated or missing ones. A good tutorial on how
to get them and where to put them would be valuable.
There was a question about knowledge of PKI --
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:11:10PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
> I've tried 777 perms for umail and umail/inbox file.
Don't do that. Not only is it likely irrelevant, but it's a terrible
idea, securitywise. The magic everybody has access perms is not
something you should do blindly. Notice
Dumb error -- on that machine I'm nashjc, on others I'm john,
so I need /home/nashjc/umail/inbox and it works fine.
Aidan's reply presented the filename clearly.
JN
On 15-04-16 02:38 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> This looks like the error:
> /home/john/umail/inbox: No such file or directory
>
I recently had some issues with my research (virtual) server at uOttawa.
As it was Ubuntu 12.04 decided to upgrade. Telfer "standard" is now
Centos 7, and I decided to go with that. However, I'm finding that I'm
getting an error when I do some email backups using fetchmail,
particularly in the MDA
I'm prepared to help. (I've done some Linux coaching via email - it can
exercise one's ability to research and write for non-geeks!)
On 15-04-15 02:19 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
> I recently received a help request from Marlene Harris, partner of Gary
> Jones who gave our Randall Leavitt semi