Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

Try changing the ownership of /var/spool/mail/paul from mail to paul. E.g. (as root): chgrp paul /var/spool/mail/paul Thanks again. ls -ld /var/spool/mail/paul now says: -rw-rw 1 paul paul 422603 Oct 23 12:16 /var/spool/mail/paul But mutt still says the mailbox

Mutt and /var/spool/mail

Third time lucky with this one. After uninstalling a perfectly serviceable version of Mutt in order to install Mutt-ja I now find that my mailbox is read only. I`ve RTFM and think that this may have something to do with the -homespool option and setgid but to be honest I`m still a bit of a newbie

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? I have drwxrwsr -x root mail Anthony -- Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have done? $ ls -l /var/spool/mail total 416

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

Paul wrote: What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? I have drwxrwsr -x root mail Anthony -- Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have done? $ ls -l