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Mailbox is read-only.



I am getting the message:

Mailbox is read-only.

I checked out the doc regarding mutt_dotlock and checked the
permissions, which now are:


# ls -ld /var/mail /var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail/jerryb /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mail  33816 Nov 16 07:31 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root mail     15 Aug  3 08:04 /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail
drwxrwsr-x  4 root mail    168 Jan 13 11:39 /var/spool/mail
-rw-r--r--  1 root mail 149580 Jan 13 10:38 /var/spool/mail/jerryb

Yet, when logged in as the use "jerryb" I get the "Mailbox is
read-only" message when trying to delete messages.  The user jerryb is
in the groups:

$ groups
wheel mail audio cdrom games cdrw users portage camera


What am I doing wrong here?