-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:38 am, Peter Watson wrote: > My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would like to > read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account which reads from > /var/spool/mail/username, this is ok except that when I try to get mail I > receive a message "could not lock /var/spool/mail/username". > > If I change the permissioms on /var/spool/mail/ to let others write entries > everything works fine for a while until something (?msec) changes the > permissions back to what they were. > > Can anyone tell me an elegant solution to this problem please?
I got around this problem by setting the locking mechanism in Kmail settings to Mutt dotlock priviledged. - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+U7vKGu5uuMFlL5MRAuh9AJ9ULHZR3mgOQZ5OJ4k8xkDi2N67oACdEwcv 6z+ecfDFyszPKXfsWSMUKH4= =Z96X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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