[NTLUG:Discuss] Local mail problem

[Greg Hewett]

I got the same error, and I am not sure what the error means.  Actually, I do
not have the time to investigate.  Evolution is a ever changing organism, so I
do not spend much time debugging or using for that matter.

Anyway, here is your quick insecure fix:

1. change incoming mailbox type to Standard UNIX mailbox.

2. because you cannot write the lock file because you do not have permissions
to write to the /var/spool/mail directory, you have to change the
persmissions of /var/spool/mail to writable. ( chmod 777 /var/spool/mail )

3.  Send Recieve

My suggestion:  get POP3 to work!!! and use that until evolution makes it
easier to do your localmail.  "Unixmbox spool-format mail files" should work.
You might try looking at the mailing lists or their help files.

Greg



On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Patrick Parks wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2001 14:15:44 -0500, Greg Hewett wrote:
> 
> > > Will it be a .lock or something easy to recognize? Thanks
> > 
> > I believe so.
> 
>     ok, this is my /var/spool/mail Diectory. I do not see a lock file,
>     but are the permissions right?
>     for my settings in Evolution, my server type is "Unixmbox
>     spool-format mail files" and the path is /var/spool/mail/pparks The
>     error I get when I hit the send and recieve button is "Error while
>     'Fetching mail': Spool stores do not have an inbox" Any ideas?
>     Thanks.
>     
> 
> [root at C1652034-d mail]# ls -alg
> 
> total 28
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         4096 Aug 20 15:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 Aug 15 04:58 ..
> -rw-------    1 pparks   mail         4755 Aug 19 02:46 pparks
> -rw-------    1 root     root         8806 Aug 20 15:03 root
> 
> 
> 
> 
>            ,,,,
>           (O O)
> +oOO-------(_)-----------+
> |     Patrick Parks      |
> |  www.patrickparks.com  |
> |patrick at patrickparks.com|
> +---------------------oOO+
>        |    |    |
>         |__| |__|
>          ||   ||
>         ooO   Ooo
> 
>