On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 07:13:46PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:25:31PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > 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. > > It may be that something is wrong with your mutt_dotlock program. Did > you configure --with-mailpath=/var/mail? What are the permissions of > /var/mail? Is your mutt_dotlock setgid? > > Also you may want to check for a stale lockfile in the /var/mail > directory. >
Hi thanks, this prompted me to recompile and the install failed. I install as non-root in a directory. The chgrp/setuid chmod failed on mutt_dotlock. I'd missed the failure of install-exec-hook in my haste to recompile a couple of days ago. I just ran these manually with sudo, all is fixed. Regards, -- Ben Fitzgerald
