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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail</H1>
<B>James Kerr</B>
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<I>Mon Jun 25 17:31:31 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 25/06/2012 15:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
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</I>><i> On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
</I>>><i> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">annew at kde.org</A>>
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</I>>>><i> Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message
</I>>>><i> that it couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the
</I>>>><i> exact words). 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".
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</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?
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</I>>>><i> Anne - --
</I>>><i> /var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne.
</I>>><i> Thunderbird will be putting your mail somewhere else. I suspect
</I>>><i> that it will be a dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a
</I>>><i> subdirectory of your .mozilla directory.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I think that TB uses the mbox file format. That means that your
</I>>><i> inbox will be one big file. Perhaps TB is trying to delete the
</I>>><i> old mails, hence "truncate."
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</I>><i> That makes sense, yes. I had assumed that it was talking about system
</I>><i> messages, which I would expect to be in /var/spool/mail/anne.
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System messages will be in /var/spool/mail/anne, only if your MTA is
configured to deliver them there. Otherwise, IIRC, they end up in /.
Jim
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