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Assuming it meant +</I>>>>><i> /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched that, owned anne:mail (I +</I>>>>><i> tried root, too), but now the message is "Unable to truncate +</I>>>>><i> spool file /var/spool/mail/anne". +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I +</I>>>>><i> checked there, and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I +</I>>>>><i> guess something has changed wrt local mail. Are we now +</I>>>>><i> talking about ~/.local/share/local-mail/ ? What do I need to +</I>>>>><i> do now? +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I don't have this problem. I use postfix to deliver system +</I>>>><i> mails to /var/spool/mail/jim. (I don't use it for any other +</I>>>><i> purpose.) Thunderbird collects those and stores them in +</I>>>><i> ~/.thunderbird/xxx.default/Mail/localhost/inbox (where xxx is +</I>>>><i> an 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 +</I>>>><i> the file in /var/spool/mail/anne that is not what thunderbird +</I>>>><i> expects, but I've no idea what that might be. The only thought +</I>>>><i> I have is that for some reason that file is read only instead +</I>>>><i> 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 +</I>>><i> is only created when the first message is delivered and so +</I>>><i> thunderbird reports that it cannot find it until mails start +</I>>><i> being delivered to it. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail to +</I>><i> /var/spool/mail/user. If Anne is downloading her mail directly +</I>><i> via POP, /var/spool/mail/anne will never be used. +</I> +I have a dovecot IMAP server. Procmail sorts the mail into +directories on my server. The only use I would expect in +/var/spool/mail is if the system needs to send a message - and that +normally would be to root. Of course root is aliased to one of my +mail accounts. + +><i> Kmail is like that. In both cases, the mail is placed in the +</I>><i> appropriate place in $HOME. I am running getmail as user, so I had +</I>><i> to create /var/spool/mail/doug manually. It is an mbox file, so +</I>><i> can be created with "touch." Postfix runs as root, and can create +</I>><i> the spool if necessary. +</I>><i> +</I>I did touch it - but I think it's really not relevant. + +><i> It did occur to me that the config screens may say what the +</I>><i> directories are, but it looks as though $HOME/.thunderbird is the +</I>><i> place to look. +</I>><i> +</I> +Thanks anyway + +Anne +- -- +Need KDE help? 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