On 25/06/2012 15:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson <[email protected]>
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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?
Anne - --
/var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne.
Thunderbird will be putting your mail somewhere else. I suspect
that it will be a dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a
subdirectory of your .mozilla directory.
I think that TB uses the mbox file format. That means that your
inbox will be one big file. Perhaps TB is trying to delete the
old mails, hence "truncate."
That makes sense, yes. I had assumed that it was talking about system
messages, which I would expect to be in /var/spool/mail/anne.
System messages will be in /var/spool/mail/anne, only if your MTA is
configured to deliver them there. Otherwise, IIRC, they end up in /.
Jim
