[NTLUG:Discuss] Local mail problem
Greg Hewett
ghewett at d-techcorp.com
Mon Aug 20 16:09:09 CDT 2001
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
>
>
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