We need to lock, otherwise you will lose/corrupt e-mail messages. It just needs write access to the mail spool directory, which is done by the right owner/group setuid/setgid on '/usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/camel/camel-lock-helper'. But, it also checks the uid of the file is the same as you. So if they're not you might be screwed.
As an unsafe work-around, you could try setting up a link in another local directory, but that wont get past the uid check either. e.g. ~/foo/me where foo is a local directory and me is the softlink to the folder itself. I dont know exactly why 1.0.x would have worked and 1.4.x not, the locking stuff has been basically the same for a long while, I think. On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:59, Bryn Jeffries wrote: > I originally ran the version of evolution bundled with Redhat 8.0 (Ev > 1.0.4?). This was set up to collect mail from the home directory of > another linux box, which I was connected to via Samba. > > Hence, Evolution would look at /home/me/othermachine/maillink > where othermachine was an smb mounted directory to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Maillink itself was a symlink to /var/spool/mail/me on othermachine. > > This may sound complicated, but it is the most expedient arrangement for > my situation, and it worked. However, upon upgrading to Evolution 1.4.3, > I now receive an error each time I check for mail: > > Error while 'Fetching Mail': > Could not lock '/home/me/othermachine/maillink' > > Do I take it that some file-locking procedure is now being used? If so, > is there a way around this? In the previous version of Evolution the > contents of /home/me/othermachine/maillink were simply removed from the > file and imported to the local Inbox. I have tried both "local delivery" > and "Standard unix mbox spool" in settings -> receiving mail -> server > type options. "Local delivery" gives the above error, whereas the spool > option does not appear to do anything (no error, but no new email > either). > > Regards, > > Bryn > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
