On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message that it > couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the exact words). > Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched that, owned > anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is "Unable to > truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne". > > I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked there, > and there is no at all. I suspect that it will be in a d - so I > guess something has changed wrt local mail. Are we now talking about > ~/.local/share/local-mail/ ? What do I need to do now? > > Anne > - -- > Need KDE help? Try > http://userbase.kde.org or > http://forum.kde.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk/oP0YACgkQj93fyh4cnBcYRQCfS3gwREG4gPYYYl1D7v9kAE9S > vtAAoIPZ8oEOt1ovUr7RGwoGcTGDU5wn > =zcRZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > !DSPAM:4fe83fcb37146230912376! > /var/spool/mail/anne is the address of your local mailbox for user anne. Your mauilbox for Thuunderbird will be somewhere else. For example, I download mail into /var/spool/mail/doug, and my email client (kmail, currently claws-mail) moves it to the client's mailbox. If you are downloading mail diectly from the Internet with Thunderbird, you won't be using /var/spool/mail/anne
