Re: Mutt can not delete mails
Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2021, 15:38:34 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
Hi Greg,
of course I can. This is step-by-step what I do:
Starting mutt from the commandline as normal user. Mutt in ncurses appears.
Now I want to mark and delete all mails. I press Shift+D, then it asks the for
the sample and I press . (dot) and * (asterix).
By pressing the "Enter" key all mails are marked ND+.
Now pressing "q" (for quit) and it asks me "20 as deletion marked mails
delete? ([yes]/no):" (Note, I have a German environment, so it asks me in
German. This sentence a translated by me).
I answer yes, and it appears "temporary file could not be created".
Pressing again "q" and now answer "no", mutt closes.
Does this help?
Best regards
Hans
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:21:47PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I got into an issue with mutt. Problem is, mutt can not delete mails and I
> > myself can not delete the file below /var/mail/.
>
> You are not *supposed* to delete your entire inbox file. You're only
> supposed to modify it, potentially reducing the size of it to 0 bytes.
>
> That said, I've been using $HOME/Maildir/ for decades, so I don't know
> how Debian currently manages the /var/mail/* mbox files that it defaults
> to. /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock is setgid mail on my system, the same as
> on yours. /var/mail is writable by group mail (same as yours), so that
> appears to be OK.
>
> Can you give us more details? E.g. describe how you delete a single
> message from your inbox in mutt, and exactly what mutt does when you
> try it.
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