Re: Permission problems with mutt

["Joe Hansen" <joehansen12@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your help Jason! That trick worked

I created a small script cr.sh and created the reqd file for each of the 
accounts.
cd /var/spool/mail
touch $1
chmod 660 $1
chown $1 $1
chgrp mail $1

Thought this works, I wonder why wouldn't mutt create the file anyway? I 
will have to remember to run this script for each new user added to this 
system.

Long live mutt!

A grateful mutt user,
Joe.


> From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Joe Hansen <joehansen12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Permission problems with mutt
> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:13:18 -0800
>
> If you have permissions to do so, ...
>
> touch /var/spool/mail/joe
>
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:08:39PM +0000, Joe Hansen thus spake:
> > The file /var/spool/mai/joe does not exist on this system (RHEL 4). 
> > However the /var/spool/mail directory contained the following files
> >
> > $ cd /var/spool/mail
> > $ ll
> > -rw-rw----  1 cory      mail     0 Jan 27 21:31 cory
> > -rw-rw----  1 david     mail     0 Jan 27 21:32 david
> > -rw-------  1 elizabeth mail     0 Jan 31 13:56 elizabet
> > -rw-------  1 root      root 68837 Feb  1 04:02 root
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
> > Thanks for you reply Jason.
> >
> > regards,
> > Joe.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Joe Hansen <joehansen12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > CC: Mutt User Group <mutt-users@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: Permission problems with mutt
> > > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:58:52 -0800
> > >
> > > You may want to start by looking at the access to and of your mailbox.
> > > /var/spool/mail/joe
> > >
> > > -Jason
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:47:13PM +0000, Joe Hansen thus spake:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to save a copy of the outgoing mail to my Inbox.
> > > >
> > > > My /etc/Muttrc contains the following...
> > > > set copy=yes
> > > > set record="!"
> > > >
> > > > I am getting the following error when I try to send an email from my 
> > > > account using mutt...
> > > > /var/spool/mail/joe Permission denied (errno = 13)
> > > >
> > > > This error does not occur when I use another email account (joe2) on the 
> > > > same machine. What could be the problem?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help!
> > > > Joe.
> > > >
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