The permissions seem OK (although having them set to 660 is more appropriate). It seems you are attempting to read root's mail: Are you logged in directly as root, or did you use "su"? There is a difference between "su" and "su -" (the latter switches to root and makes the session a shell login; reading in root's full environment).
At any rate, as root do "chmod 660 /var/spool/mail/root", then make sure you are fully logged in as root and try again (the permissions command I gave won't help this situation, but are more appropriate permissions for root's mail spool). On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 03:33, Mohan K Cavale wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] moni]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/root > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 443962 Nov 24 16:02 > /var/spool/mail/root > > Can u please explain ? > > -MKC > > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 14:44, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > do "ls -l /var/spool/mail/<userid>" where <userid> is your user ID, and > > post the results. > > > > On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:44, Mohan K Cavale wrote: > > > Evolution is unable to retrieve messages from local mail spools. It > > > gives the above error even when I copy the spool into my home dir and > > > try to receive from there. Somebody please help. > > > > > > Mohan Kumar Cavale > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Eric N. Valor [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key 2048/1024 227B04CB Key Fingerprint = 766C CA15 0FFF E54B 2FEE C7D7 0F87 3AFB 227B 04CB : This Space Intentionally Left Blank :
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