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Date:      12 Jul 2000 16:28:34 -0700
From:      Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   /var/mail  Read only with mutt
Message-ID:  <87sntfapy5.fsf@satellite.local.lan>

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Running 4.0 snap 06/24

A new comer to FreeBSD, I think I may have something set wrong on my
mail spool directory.  Accessing mail from /var/mail/$USER with mutt
(version mutt-1.2).  I'm getting a message from mutt that the mailbox
is readonly if I use the `d' (delete) key.  However looking at the
permissions with ls -l tells a different story:

ls -l /var/mail
total 183
total 183
-rw-------  1 reader  reader  112437 Jul 12 16:22 reader
-rw-------  1 root    wheel    61616 Jul 12 03:10 root

Does that look like the normal permissions for mailspool files?

What other reason may cause that error from mutt?


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