Re: thunderbird and mail from the system
On 11/05/2005 11:10 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Michael Marsh on 17/05/05 13:18, wrote:
>
>> On 5/17/05, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to set up Thunderbird to pull up the mail from my mailbox
>>> on my debian box?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thunderbird calls this a "Unix movemail" account. I have one set up
>> for cron output.
>>
>
>
> I am trying to set up thunderbird to get my mailbox mail, but I get a
> message so:
>
> "Unable to create lock file /var/mail/adam.lock. For movemail to work it
> is necessary to create lock files in the mail spool directory. On many
> systems, this is best accomplished by making the spool directory mode
> 01777."
>
> Currently, /var/mail has these permissions:
>
> adam@gondor:~$ ls -la /var/mail/
> total 20
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2005-10-30 06:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2005-09-08 12:34 ..
> -rw-rw---- 1 adam mail 7415 2005-10-30 06:27 adam
> -rw------- 1 mail mail 3166 2005-03-10 00:31 mail
>
> I guess I'll do what Thunderbird advises, but I would like to know what
> the implications are, and why Thunderbird thinks its better to configure
> the system like this rather than how Debian does.
>
> Thanks
> Adam
I solved the problem by adding myself to the mail group, since it's my
desktop computer. This is a known bug:
#272956: mozilla-thunderbird: movemail permission problem
Forwarded to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239013
Also remember to check the mailbox manually:
#280475: mozilla-thunderbird: Movemail only works manually
Regards,
Ralph
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