Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:54:39 +0200 From: Oliver Epper <oliver@epper.de> To: Stefan Thurner <stefan.thurner@mb.tu-chemnitz.de> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mail/thunderbird Message-ID: <44FEC50F.8080007@epper.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061358080.32759@herkules.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061358080.32759@herkules.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
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Stefan Thurner schrieb: > Hi, > > I would like to use a movemail account in thunderbird to > read locale mail. But at the first start thunderbird > complains that it could not create a /var/mail/user.lock > file. It suggests to chmod 01777 the spool directory. > > I have done chmod 1777 /var/mail. > > But the error still occurs and thunderbird does not read the > mail from my system mailbox. > I've just tested that and all I can say is: I works ! Make shure that the rights have been set as suggested: ls -la /var | grep mail drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 6 Sep 14:50 mail Btw. read the sticky man page (man 8 sticky) if you wonder about the 1000 in the rights mask. (At least thats what I did ;) Oliver
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