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Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched +</I>><i> >> that, owned anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is +</I>><i> >> "Unable to truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne". +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked +</I>><i> >> there, and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I guess something +</I>><i> >> has changed wrt local mail. Are we now talking about +</I>><i> >> ~/.local/share/local-mail/ ? What do I need to do now? +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > I don't have this problem. I use postfix to deliver system mails to +</I>><i> > /var/spool/mail/jim. (I don't use it for any other purpose.) +</I>><i> > Thunderbird collects those and stores them in +</I>><i> > ~/.thunderbird/xxx.default/Mail/localhost/inbox (where xxx is an +</I>><i> > alphanumeric string). /var/spool/mail/jim is owned by jim. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > The process is the same on both my Mageia2 and cauldron +</I>><i> > installations. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > That error message suggests to me that there is something about the +</I>><i> > file in /var/spool/mail/anne that is not what thunderbird expects, +</I>><i> > but I've no idea what that might be. The only thought I have is +</I>><i> > that for some reason that file is read only instead of read/write. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Jim +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sorry - one point that I forgot to mention. /var/spool/mail/anne is +</I>><i> only created when the first message is delivered and so thunderbird +</I>><i> reports that it cannot find it until mails start being delivered to +</I>><i> it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail +to /var/spool/mail/user. If Anne is downloading her mail directly via +POP, /var/spool/mail/anne will never be used. Kmail is like that. In +both cases, the mail is placed in the appropriate place in $HOME. +I am running getmail as user, so I had to create /var/spool/mail/doug +manually. It is an mbox file, so can be created with "touch." Postfix +runs as root, and can create the spool if necessary. + +It did occur to me that the config screens may say what the directories +are, but it looks as though $HOME/.thunderbird is the place to look. + +Doug. +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008020.html">[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008022.html">[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8021">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8021">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8021">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8021">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |