From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 4:48:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78BFB37B925 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 21016 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2000 11:48:46 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO local.lan) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 13 Jul 2000 11:48:46 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10383; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /var/mail Read only with mutt From: Harry Putnam Date: 12 Jul 2000 16:28:34 -0700 Message-ID: <87sntfapy5.fsf@satellite.local.lan> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message