Re: strange behaviour in mail folder
Willy Sutrisno <sutrisno@singnet.com.sg> writes:
> hi,
>
> Yesterday I was playing with my procmailrc, and spambouncer. Since then, I can
> not delete the mail in my mailbox (/var/spool/mail/sutrisno). The message at
> the bottom ot Mutt says: "Mailbox is read-only."
>
> If I do:
> $ ls -l /var/spool/mail/sutrisno
> $ -rw-rw---- 1 sutrisno mail 13239 Apr 30 11:24 /var/spool/mail/sutrisno
>
> The only way to delete it is to "$ cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/sutrisno"
>
> Anyone know what cause my mailbox to be read only? I have a feeling this one
> got to do with procmail and spambouncer.
I don't really recall how mbox locking works since I use maildir, but
perhaps there's a stale dotlock file sitting around. It would be
named something like /var/mail/sutrisno.lock. If it's there, try
removing it.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: