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Re: Mutt 1.4-1 opens mbox read-only


Gary,

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:29:55PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > While installing Cygwin exim yesterday, I *may* have stumbled onto your
> > problem.  After changing the permissions of /var/spool/mail to meet the
> > needs of exim, I started to get the read-only mbox problem myself.
> 
> What particular permissions were they?

Until I installed exim, /var/spool/mail was owned and writable by me:

    $ ls -dl /var/spool/mail
    drwxr-xr-t    2 jt       Domain U     4096 Jul 25 10:01 /var/spool/mail

After installing exim, I changed the ownership and permissions to:

    $ chown exim:mail /var/spool/mail
    $ ls -dl /var/spool/mail
    drwxrwxr-t    2 exim     mail         4096 Jul 25 10:01 /var/spool/mail

With the above permissions mutt could not dotlock files in
/var/spool/mail and opened my inbox read-only.

When I opened up permissions (i.e., added other writable):

    $ chmod o+w /var/spool/mail
    $ ls -dl /var/spool/mail
    drwxrwxrwt    2 exim     mail         4096 Jul 25 10:01 /var/spool/mail

mutt became  "happy" and opened my inbox read/write.

Jason

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