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From: "setantae" <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John <john@starfire.mn.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:17:58 -0000
Subject: Re: mutt thinks mailbox is read-only?
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On 2 Feb 2002, at 8:59, John wrote:

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> I have just switched to FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (Yeah -- I know -- but
> I've been putzing on it since August) and I am having a problem with
> mutt "out of the box" from packages.  While I can modify my mailbox
> using "mail", "mutt" insists that it is read-only.  If I copy it
> somewhere else with the same permissions, it can modify it just fine,
> so I assume it has something to do with the directory permissions, but
> they look just the same as on my old FreeBSD 2.1 system, on which the
> old mutt worked just fine.
> 
> Here are the respective permissions.
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 bin  bin  2048 Feb  2 08:47 /var/mail
> -rw-------  1 john  lind  5097178 Feb  2 08:47 /var/mail/john
> 
> Any CLUES would be appreciated, since I don't currently seem to own
> one!

It's a bug in the version of mutt that you're running; it doesn't install
mutt_dotlock, so it fails.

Get a newer version.

Ceri

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