Holger Metzger wrote: > David Shochat wrote: > >> when I click on Get Msgs while in the Inbox of this account, nothing >> happens, although I know there are messages (nonempty >> /var/spool/mail/david) and in fact I can read them using Pine. How do >> I debug this? > > I'm not sure about Mozilla, but good ole Netscape needed write access > to /var/spool/mail/ and maybe Mozilla as well. > Try > chmod a+w /var/spool/mail
auauauau! Do this only for debugging! This gives *everyone* write access to the mailbox dir! Meaning anybody could walk in and delete your mail and probably even replace it with something they forged. Better do chmod u+w /var/spool/mail/david Always be careful with a+ or o+ of sensitive files/dirs :).
