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That said, I still +</I>>><i> don't understand why. During the time I've been trying to solve +</I>>><i> this, I have made two changes. First I added a newline character +</I>>><i> in /var/spool/mail/anne - this seems to have disappeared, so I +</I>>><i> doubt if that was the reason. The other change was to make the +</I>>><i> ownership anne:mail. Maybe that helped? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I thought you had posted earlier that you changed the ownership to +</I>><i> anne:mail and that didn't help ? That is the correct ownership. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you're using IMAP through TB, your mail folders will be under +</I>><i> $HOME/.thunderbird/xxx.default/ImapMail/servername. The problem +</I>><i> you describe with /var/spool/mail/anne can only occur if your MTA +</I>><i> (postfix) doesn't have write authority to that file. In fact, I +</I>><i> notice on my system that my /var/spool/mail/ftg file has ownership +</I>><i> ftg:mail, but the permissions are only rw-------, so I guess +</I>><i> postfix must be assuming an euid of the recipient before trying to +</I>><i> write to the file, i. e. the group shouldn't matter. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In any case, if you can do mail anne Subject: Test line 1 CTRL-D +</I>><i> +</I>><i> and it gets through to /var/spool/mail/anne, then it's working. If +</I>><i> it's not, try renaimng the file as root, rerun the test, and see +</I>><i> what gets created for that file. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you still see the message, try to identify what's issuing it. +</I>><i> It's possible that if TB somehow got hooked up with that file, it +</I>><i> may be trying to auto-compact it or something. +</I> +That was interesting. The message was delivered to an account called +System, type Unix Movemail, server name localhost. Not sure, but it +looks as though maybe I set that up thinking that I didn't have any +provision for local messages. Now it's beginning to make sense. It +really does look as though it was a permissions problem, in not having +mail as the group. When I said it hadn't helped, maybe I hadn't +restarted after the change. + +Sorry if this all sounds confused. Family problems are taking much of +my time just now and I keep dropping the ball. Still, I've learned +some useful stuff. + +Thanks again, everybody. + +Anne + +- -- +Need KDE help? 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