Bug#423800: kmail: cannot lock /var/mail/{user} when getting localmachine mail

2007-05-14 Thread Paul Anthony Judd
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal

when using checkmail of localmailbox it reports it cannot lock /var/mail/user 
and so does not collect mail.
Can only import from /var/mail/user

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2a4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii  libart-2.0-2   2.3.17-1  Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio2  1.8-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6  2.3.6.ds1-13  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6   2.2.1-5   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc11:4.1.1-21GCC support library
ii  libice61:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11   0.6.5-1   GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62  6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkcal2b  4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE calendaring library
ii  libkdepim1a4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE PIM library
ii  libkleopatra1  4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii  libkmime2  4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE MIME interface library
ii  libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE PIM user identity information 
ii  libksieve0 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii  libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6  KDE mime library
ii  libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt  3:3.3.7-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6 4.1.1-21  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6   2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor11.1.7-4   X cursor management library
ii  libxext6   1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft22.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1   1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender11:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  perl   5.8.8-7   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13compression library - runtime

Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii  procmail  3.22-16Versatile e-mail processor

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Bug#423800: kmail: cannot lock /var/mail/{user} when getting localmachine mail

2007-05-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Monday 14 May 2007, Paul Anthony Judd wrote:
 Package: kmail
 Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
 Severity: normal

 when using checkmail of localmailbox it reports it cannot lock
 /var/mail/user and so does not collect mail. Can only import from
 /var/mail/user

What kind of locking method do you use?  If you use the one with lockfiles, is 
your lockfile placed somewhere where you have write access ?

/Sune
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