Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:23:53 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Jerry <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.981130162321.27977L-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9811301312550.25041-100000@uw>
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I believe PINE needs to be able to create a {inbox}.pine.lock file in the
mail spool area.
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote:
> I think I'm having a problem with pine, I went to the pine news group but
> it doesn't look like its the most popular place on the net for help.
>
> Anytime a user opens mail their inbox is "read only" except root. The
> permissions are right on /var/mail/"user" -rw------- in fact as a
> regular user I can goto that file open it and modify it with no problem??
>
> I've tried uninstalling pine and reinstalling, no change. I also upgraded
> to sendmail 8.9.0 I don't know if that matters. and I'm using
> FreeBSD 2.2.5-R.
>
> Thanks
> Jerry
>
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