/var/mail/$USER read-only

Hi, on building the latest mutt from https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt.git I have one odd problem. My linux mail box is /var/mail/$USER, previously I had read and deleted mails from this mailbox, now I get an error message from mutt, telling me the mailbox is read-only. Anyone know why this is? Th

Re: /var/mail/$USER read-only

Did you by chance leave another copy of mutt running? It might have locked your mailbox. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymiehy...@lactose.homelinux.net On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:25:31PM -0500, benfi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > My linux mail box is /var/mail/$USER, previously

Re: /var/mail/$USER read-only

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:25:31PM -0500, benfi...@gmail.com wrote: > My linux mail box is /var/mail/$USER, previously I had read and deleted mails > from this mailbox, now I get an error message from mutt, telling me the > mailbox > is read-only. It may be that something is wrong with your mutt_