mutt says mailbox read only

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 9:11 pm, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer wrote:
> Speaking of questions:
>
> I just mv'ed a bunch of directories from a smaller to a larger hard drive,
> including /home, /var, opt1, and /usr.
>
> This worked, surprisingly enuf.
>
> However, mutt complains that my mailbox is read only when I try to delete
> mail. I can edit my /var/spool/mail/user mailbox with vi, and fetchmail is
> working fine, so sendmail is writing to this mail box.
>
> Here are the permissions:
>
> -rw-r-----   1 jlh  root  866172 Nov 30 20:59 /var/spool/mail/jlh
>
> mutt has the following permissions:
>
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     root       404944 Feb 17  2000 /usr/bin/mutt
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>

Maybe mutt wants the mailbox to be group writable (which would seem to be odd, 
but...).
Permissions on my mailbox are
-rw-rw----    1 dad      dad             0 Nov 30 21:21 dad

HTH, 
Tim

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