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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 +</I>>><i> something 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 +</I>><i> to /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>The only file that was in /var/spool/mail/ before I created that file +was 'postfix'. When I checked the Cauldron netbook, that was the +situation there too, so clearly this is not what it was referring to. + +I have /home/anne/.thunderbird/4upsp8fe.default/Mail/Local Folders/ +where there is absolutely nothing in the Inbox. There is a Saved +folder their, containing a single saved message. + +- -rw------- 1 anne users 28775 Jan 31 09:54 Saved +- -rw-r--r-- 1 anne users 2838 Jun 25 16:05 Saved.msf + +This is clearly carried over from my Fedora installation. + +- -rw-r----- 1 anne anne 0 Jun 22 11:36 Inbox +- -rw-rw-r-- 1 anne anne 2217 Jun 25 16:04 Inbox.msf + +I'm lost. + +Anne +- -- +Need KDE help? 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