Re: mutt: mailbox is read only
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> For no discernable reason, mutt now tells me that "Mailbox is read
> only" whenever I try to modify it. It's a standard mail file sitting
> in /var/spool/mail, and its permissions are rw -- I can use it
> normally from elm.
I had this happen to me a while back, but it might not be the same problem as
yours. The problem was that file locking wasn't working properly. But if this
was the case on your system I think elm would complain also. See if pine
complains.
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