On 9/02/2016 1:31 AM, Paul Marwick wrote:
On 08/02/16 11:45, Daniel wrote:
<snip>
Paul, I note you are posting using Linux (normally I would be as well,
but it's broke att!)
:) Yes. I use Windows so seldom that I don't have any mail setup under
it at all...
If, with-in SeaMonkey, you go to Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account
Settings and select "Server Settings" for one of the accounts that are
broken and note, at the bottom of that screen, the "Local directory"
location.
Then completely close SeaMonkey and go to the noted location and
ensure you have permission to use those directories.
I've checked ownership and permissions on all the mail folders. All are
correct, so it doesn't look like a permission problem. In addition, this
happened on Saturday evening. I'd been using Seamonkey mail during the
afternoon without problems, so other than a filesystem problem, it had
to have been due to an update. I run Arch Linux, which gets updated very
frequently.
I've just had a look at the pacman logs. I updated a couple of things on
Saturday afternoon and probably hadn't restarted the laptop until the
evening. Looking at the list of updates for Saturday, the only one I can
see that I think might make a difference is Java. But I've disabled the
java plugin, so I would hope it isn't creating the problem.
If you've just installed SM, you may have set things up so that only
Root has permission to use those folders/directories!!
:) I've been using Seamonkey for years, and that profile has been around
since at least Seamonkey 3.25 or 3.26 (I had problems with one of the
upgrades back then and ended up having to manually rebuild the profile.
3.25?? 3.26?? ... Latest SM that I know of is 2.39 although 2.42 or so
is in Alpha/Beta a.t.t.!!
I share the profile between several different Linux distributions - I've
got Xubuntu 14.04, another Arch install and Sparky Linux installed on
the laptop. I share the profile by having symlinks from the primary Arch
user account to the user accounts I have in the other distros. I'm
always careful to keep the same install version of Seamonkey on all of
the installs -had problems a few years ago when one distro was slow to
update Seamonkey and I didn't notice...
Thanks for the suggestions.
Paul.
I dual boot my SM on Win7 and MageiaLinux (and previously on Mandriva
and Mandrake), using the same profile, on my Win E:\ drive, for both Win
and Linux installations.
--
Daniel
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