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.
Well, glad to hear it is solved! I have the feeling the permissions / ownership may have had the most to do with it, but as I don't know what they were like priorly, that's just a guess.
Remmy
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