Re: mailboxes?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Roderick Cummings" <debian_user@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the 
>mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out:
>
>Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied
>
>Now if I use mutt, I can delete the message, but what is wrong with 
>mail/mailx?

mailx was made no longer setgid mail in a potato security update because
it was too riddled with security holes, and hence it doesn't have write
permissions to the /var/mail directory. You can still use it for sending
mail, but unless you explicitly chmod g+s it yourself you can't really
use it for reading mail sensibly.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]