Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm starting to think there are serious problems with my mail setup, and I have no clue as to whether they are related or not :( Thanks again You could also have a leftover (stale) lock file that's tripping everyone up. Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :) 501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail total 59 drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. -rw--- 1 user1mail0 Nov 28 1995 user1 -rw--- 1 user2mail0 Nov 21 01:43 user2 -rw--- 1 root mail56691 Nov 26 06:50 root # ls -al /var/spool/mqueue total 2 drwx-- 2 root root 1024 Nov 26 15:58 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. # -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message approxamately 5 min after doing echo test | mail lars at any given terminal: Are you runnning sendmail, or smail? Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml... nnml: Reading incoming mail... Getting mail from /root/.gnus-crash-box... Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.) This is what happens when gnus encounters a problem moving your mail from your /usr/spool/mail box to your local directory. You can get things back in a reasonable state by moving the ~/.gnus-crash-box file to another namYou should check its contents to make sure you didn't lose anything important. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
Well, even though you're all stumped as to why that .gnus file doesn't work, I think i've tracked the problem down to something other than Gnus. When I inc my mail for mh, i get this message: inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/lars And when Gnus calls movemail to get my mail from the spool file, I get this error message: nnml: Reading incoming mail... Getting mail from /var/spool/mail/lars... movemail: Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/Ea10189--see source file lib-src/movemail.c Cannot read active file from nnml server. This isn't the only problem with my mail setup. When I send messages with something like echo test | mail lars i get this message after waiting a few minutes: cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied The perms on /var/spool/mqueue are drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Nov 25 17:16 mqueue/ which can't be right. I'm starting to think there are serious problems with my mail setup, and I have no clue as to whether they are related or not :( Thanks again -lars -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version 3.12 GUCSAT dpu s-:- a---? C+++ ULU P+? L+++ E+ W+ N++ o? K? w- O! M-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP- t--- 5-- X-- R- tv--! b+/+ DI+ D+ G++ e- h! !r !z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
Rob Browning wrote: Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :) 501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail total 59 drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. -rw--- 1 user1mail0 Nov 28 1995 user1 -rw--- 1 user2mail0 Nov 21 01:43 user2 -rw--- 1 root mail56691 Nov 26 06:50 root # ls -al /var/spool/mqueue total 2 drwx-- 2 root root 1024 Nov 26 15:58 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. # I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message approxamately 5 min after doing echo test | mail lars at any given terminal: bash$ cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied I guess the program send-mail is trying to do this. Also, I ran gnus as root, and got this message after trying to get my mail: Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml... nnml: Reading incoming mail... Getting mail from /root/.gnus-crash-box... Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.) Should I just give up and reinstall, or is this fixable? (I'd rather fix it, but I'm afraid I have no hope) Thanks again -lars -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version 3.12 GUCSAT dpu s-:- a---? C+++ ULU P+? L+++ E+ W+ N++ o? K? w- O! M-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP- t--- 5-- X-- R- tv--! b+/+ DI+ D+ G++ e- h! !r !z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
