From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 24 3:35:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB8137B41B for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 03:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackbox.pacbell.net ([64.166.85.255]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GOU00CH2IUK3Q@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 03:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mikem@localhost) by blackbox.pacbell.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBOBfeP36071; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 03:41:40 -0800 (PST envelope-from mikem) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 03:41:40 -0800 From: mikem Subject: Re: switching to sylpheed In-reply-to: <200112241035.fBOAZI7h013406@lima.epix.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200112241141.fBOBfeP36071@blackbox.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd5.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200112241035.fBOAZI7h013406@lima.epix.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 05:35:16 -0500 Dave Kaufman wrote: > > not being sure i hit OK and get. > "Error > Creation of the mailbox failed. > Maybe some files exist, or you don't have the > permission to write there." > The default directory it tries to create is Mail. Do you already have such a sub-directory in your home directory? > i'm logged in as root (i know, bad form but i'm trying to keep things simple > for now). Have you tried the sudo port. It's very useful. cheers, mikem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message