Did you by chance leave another copy of mutt running? It might have locked your mailbox.
--hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie [email protected] On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:25:31PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > My linux mail box is /var/mail/$USER, previously I had read and deleted > mails from this mailbox, now I get an error message from mutt, telling > me the mailbox is read-only. > > Anyone know why this is? The permissions on /var/mail and the file itself > do allow me to write to the file.
