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Re: Can not delete file with correct permissions



On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 06:58:08PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> No. What the MUA is trying to do (see my other mails) is to create
> and delete lock files. That's why it wants write access to the
> mail spool directory.
> 
> There is a mode for mutt where it actually uses a setgid helper
> program.

Good old dot-locking.  We just had another thread about this one. :-)

So, yeah, that's one of the big arguments for mailboxes being in
user home directories instead of a single global directory.


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