Re: Mutt

[ngterry@easan.com.hk (Terence Ng)]

Glyn:

What if I get:

-rw------- 1 ngterry  root  494616 Feb 7 00:01  /var/spool/mail/ngterry

Sincerely,

Terence Ng


On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:42AM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> ngterry@easan.com.hk (Terence Ng) writes:
> 
> > I have just set up my MTA.  After I read an email, I would like to delete it.  After I type in 'd' or '^d', a message shows 'Mailbox is read only'.  Why?  Is it because I capture the mail directly from /var/spool/mail/ngterry?  Did I miss any thing?
> 
> What do you get if you do 
> 
> ls -ld  /var/spool/mail/ngterry ?
> 
> Here I get 
> 
> -rw-r----- 1 glyn mail   1 Feb 1 16:16 /var/spool/mail/glyn
>   ^
> This is important! If it's not there then
> 
> as root
> 
> chmod u+w  /var/spool/mail/ngterry
> 
> 
> should help
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Glyn
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