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Re: "Mailbox is read-only.", but it isn't



On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:39:17PM +0100, Rado S wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> check permissions per wiki-FAQ,
> check 'mutt -v|grep -i lock' to you use proper locking.
> 
Brilliant!  That's the problem, /var/mail is:-

    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Oct 16  1999 /var/mail

the group should be mail.  I guess the sysadmin didn't check when he
moved the mail spool.

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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)