On 2021-07-08 at 10:18, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I ran into the problem with mutt. Mutt can not delete my mails due > to the access rights. > > Looks like something is not correct set. Can someone tell me the > correctsetting? > > Mine are these at the moment: > > ls -la / | grep var > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 18. Mai 11:33 var $ ls -lhd /var/ drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4.0K Jul 4 14:17 /var/ So this looks OK. > ls -la /var | grep mail > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 8. Jul 16:02 mail $ ls -lhd /var/mail/ drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4.0K Jul 7 07:03 /var/mail/ Seems like this one does too. > ls -la /var/mail/username > > -rw-rw---- 1 myusername mail 55330396 8. Jul 16:02 /var/mail/myusername > > (The term "myusername" is an alias for my real username) $ lh /var/mail/wanderer -rw-rw---- 1 wanderer mail 0 Jul 7 07:03 /var/mail/wanderer So does this. Unless there's something I'm not spotting, it doesn't look like the issue is with file/directory permissions. Just offhand, comparing against my own system, I'm not sure of exactly where to look. (I don't use mutt myself, but I do read mail from this spool using /usr/bin/mail (which is /usr/bin/bsd-mailx), so would presumably need the same access - and I don't have the errors you're reporting.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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