Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :>)
>
> 501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail
> total 59
> drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 ..
> -rw------- 1 user1 mail 0 Nov 28 1995 user1
> -rw------- 1 user2 mail 0 Nov 21 01:43 user2
> -rw------- 1 root mail 56691 Nov 26 06:50 root
>
> # ls -al /var/spool/mqueue
> total 2
> drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Nov 26 15:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 ..
> #
I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message
approxamately 5 min after doing "echo test | mail lars" at any given
terminal:
bash$ cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
I guess the program send-mail is trying to do this.
Also, I ran gnus as root, and got this message after trying to get my
mail:
Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
Getting mail from /root/.gnus-crash-box...
Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.)
Should I just give up and reinstall, or is this fixable? (I'd rather fix
it, but I'm afraid I have no hope)
Thanks again
-lars
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