Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:17:58 -0000 From: "setantae" <setantae@submonkey.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John <john@starfire.mn.org> Subject: Re: mutt thinks mailbox is read-only? Message-ID: <3C5C1136.891.CFB900@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020202085933.A16298@dexter.starfire.mn.org>
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On 2 Feb 2002, at 8:59, John wrote: > *** NOT CURRENTLY SUBSCRIBED -- PLEASE INCLUDE MY DIRECT E-MAIL IN > REPLIES *** > > I have just switched to FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (Yeah -- I know -- but > I've been putzing on it since August) and I am having a problem with > mutt "out of the box" from packages. While I can modify my mailbox > using "mail", "mutt" insists that it is read-only. If I copy it > somewhere else with the same permissions, it can modify it just fine, > so I assume it has something to do with the directory permissions, but > they look just the same as on my old FreeBSD 2.1 system, on which the > old mutt worked just fine. > > Here are the respective permissions. > > drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 2048 Feb 2 08:47 /var/mail > -rw------- 1 john lind 5097178 Feb 2 08:47 /var/mail/john > > Any CLUES would be appreciated, since I don't currently seem to own > one! It's a bug in the version of mutt that you're running; it doesn't install mutt_dotlock, so it fails. Get a newer version. Ceri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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