From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 19:18:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008CA16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:18:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from guri.is.scarlet.be (guri.is.scarlet.be [193.74.71.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD3C43D55 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:18:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beni.brinckman@scarlet.be) Received: from (ip-213-49-122-13.dsl.scarlet.be [213.49.122.13]) by guri.is.scarlet.be with ESMTP id j2EJI1C22569; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:18:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4235E340.8040404@scarlet.be> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:17:20 +0100 From: beni User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050310) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Kelley References: <20050313171401.893BD16A4E7@hub.freebsd.org> <42352DD9.9060600@kelleycows.com> In-Reply-To: <42352DD9.9060600@kelleycows.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and local mail ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:18:06 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Kelley wrote: | You Wrote: | | |> Hi, |> |> System: 5.3-REL-p5 |> |> I would like to get my local mail (from /var/mail/) in my |> Thunderbird (v1.0 - 20050310) mailbox. |> |> I found |> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-December/027652.html |> which is talking about version 0.3... But I get the same message |> as described after having created a movemail mailbox : "unable to |> create .lock file". I've tried to set up a movemail for |> the user and one for Root, but get the same message back. |> |> So, how do I get those local mails transferred into my mailbox ? |> |> Beni. |> | | Hi, | | The popup message on Thunderbird tells you (somewhat cryptically) | what you need to do. I believe it says something along the lines | of: | | --- Unable to create .lock file. For movemail to work, it is | necessary to create lock files in the mail spool directory. On many | systems, this is best accomplished by making the spool directory | be mode 01777. --- | | The spool directory is /var/mail, so what I did was (as root), cd | to /var, then 'chmod 1777 mail'. Please note that this machine is | behind a firewall, and provides no services to the internet, so I'm | not very concerned about any security holes doing this may open | up. | | I'm using Tbird 1.0, and I haven't touched my sendmail | configuration from the "factory defaults". I redirected (via | /etc/mail/aliases) the "root" mail to the normal user that runs X. | | Christopher | Yep, that did it. Thanks a lot ! Beni. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCNeNA98oeEzEDrEcRAqVAAJ4vYXLjrRdvCEo4hI9Q81vLRCMDFgCgjp7N 8jlIDdnHEyWnpaTh8/h1DIM= =vwbl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----