Re: receive system mail into inbox?

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On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 21:36 +0100, Jack wrote:

> Transmission failed: Could not lock /var/mail/myusername
> of course i'm trying to read my own mail.
> Permission problems?
> 
> ls -lah /var/mail/
> 
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root mail 4.0K 2008-11-23 21:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K 2008-07-26 12:05 ..
> -rw-rw----  1 myusername mail 2.2M 2008-11-23 21:31 myusername

I have this:

ls -l /var/mail -ah
drwxrwxr-t  2 root      mail 4.0K 2008-11-23 20:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root      root 4.0K 2008-10-30 22:56 ..