-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 16:29, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:18:36PM +0100, Anne wrote in > <[email protected]>: >>>> >>> 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. > > Hi Anne, > > So, if you use imap locally, as it sounds like you do, then > Thunderbird has no place in even trying to touch > /var/spool/mail/anne . In this case, if /var/spool/mail/anne is > seperate from your regular mail account, I think you may want to > tell dovecot about it so it can serve it over imap to thunderbird. > Having postfix, dovecot, and thunderbird all trying to access > /var/spool/mail/anne and even attempting locks on it might give all > sort of issues. > Hi, Remmy. No, the IMAP server is on a different box. This laptop is pure client.
It's odd, but I may have solved the problem. That said, I still don't understand why. During the time I've been trying to solve this, I have made two changes. First I added a newline character in /var/spool/mail/anne - this seems to have disappeared, so I doubt if that was the reason. The other change was to make the ownership anne:mail. Maybe that helped? I don't know. I tried Frank's strace suggestion - and saw practically nothing (Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"), so I tried logging out and in, and restarting, to see if the problem was triggered by first-time use in either of these situations, but I didn't get the message on either occasion. Perhaps it's cured. 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/ohyAACgkQj93fyh4cnBdjgwCeJLHHjw2R+JGU9iXdS4imquS1 i94AoIRilnAbaRPbKZq2+p0oTBfgVhW1 =SAJ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
