The problem is that in order to lock a mailbox, the program that does it must have write access to that directory.
Evolution uses an external setgid program to do it called camel-lock-helper which should be located in /usr/sbin/ or whatever your distro would put it. anyways, make sure it is setgid, if not: chmod 2755 /usr/sbin/camel-lock-helper Jeff On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 21:52, Glenn Davy wrote: > At the moment I'm using fetchmail to fetch my various mail items and > receiving it into evolution with 'local delivery'. This works fine IF my > /var/spool/mail directory has 777 permissions. However linuxconf always > sets it back to 775 - in this case evolution complains that it can't > lock the file. > The ownerof the mail directory is root:mail, and I am part of group > mail, which I thought would make all the difference - but it doesn't. > BTW - Pine can retrieve mail from this spool file if that gives any > clues? > Any ideas anyone? > Glenn > > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
