-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 13:21, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:06:45 +0100 James Kerr > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 25/06/2012 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. >>> >>> Jim >>> >> >> Sorry - one point that I forgot to mention. /var/spool/mail/anne >> is only created when the first message is delivered and so >> thunderbird reports that it cannot find it until mails start >> being delivered to it. >> >> > But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail to > /var/spool/mail/user. If Anne is downloading her mail directly > via POP, /var/spool/mail/anne will never be used.
I have a dovecot IMAP server. Procmail sorts the mail into directories on my server. The only use I would expect in /var/spool/mail is if the system needs to send a message - and that normally would be to root. Of course root is aliased to one of my mail accounts. > Kmail is like that. In both cases, the mail is placed in the > appropriate place in $HOME. I am running getmail as user, so I had > to create /var/spool/mail/doug manually. It is an mbox file, so > can be created with "touch." Postfix runs as root, and can create > the spool if necessary. > I did touch it - but I think it's really not relevant. > It did occur to me that the config screens may say what the > directories are, but it looks as though $HOME/.thunderbird is the > place to look. > Thanks anyway 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/ogUoACgkQj93fyh4cnBeS7QCeObeAJs8aes21XizajCZbfQJ+ rDcAnjtrk82sbzHitqF1uG/lGzNbjZFV =rVv2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
