On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:30:23 +0200, Juha Heinanen wrote: > i noticed that permissions of /var/mail dir have changed from squeeze to > wheezy. > > in squeeze i have > > $ ls -lsa > total 60 > 4 drwxrwsrwt 2 root mail 4096 Mar 21 09:00 . > > and in wheezy > > $ ls -lsa > total 60 > 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 21 09:00 . > > the changes causes my emacs vm not being able to remove my emails from > /var/mail when it has copied them to my local folder. > You should still have write access to /var/mail/$USER, which should be enough to empty the file, even if you can't remove it. Sounds like an emacs vm bug to me... Cheers, Julien
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