-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 12:54, James Kerr wrote: > On 25/06/2012 11:36, Anne Wilson 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 /var/spool/mail/anne - 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? >> > > I don't have this problem. I use postfix to deliver system mails > to /var/spool/mail/jim. (I don't use it for any other purpose.) > Thunderbird collects those and stores them in > ~/.thunderbird/xxx.default/Mail/localhost/inbox (where xxx is an > alphanumeric string). /var/spool/mail/jim is owned by jim. > > The process is the same on both my Mageia2 and cauldron > installations. > > That error message suggests to me that there is something about the > file in /var/spool/mail/anne that is not what thunderbird expects, > but I've no idea what that might be. The only thought I have is > that for some reason that file is read only instead of read/write. > The only file that was in /var/spool/mail/ before I created that file was 'postfix'. When I checked the Cauldron netbook, that was the situation there too, so clearly this is not what it was referring to.
I have /home/anne/.thunderbird/4upsp8fe.default/Mail/Local Folders/ where there is absolutely nothing in the Inbox. There is a Saved folder their, containing a single saved message. - -rw------- 1 anne users 28775 Jan 31 09:54 Saved - -rw-r--r-- 1 anne users 2838 Jun 25 16:05 Saved.msf This is clearly carried over from my Fedora installation. - -rw-r----- 1 anne anne 0 Jun 22 11:36 Inbox - -rw-rw-r-- 1 anne anne 2217 Jun 25 16:04 Inbox.msf I'm lost. 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/ogHsACgkQj93fyh4cnBdqDQCggM9NqHeORtWL92mFTxu6WXAf dBEAni0FtuvywvuTZw4NVrXFGhYkVGUp =EmaU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
