mutt says mailbox read only

[Joel Hammer]

I tried 660, 666, and 777 with chmod. No joy.

It's clearly not permissions on this mail box. I wonder if there is some
other box mutt is talking about.

Joel

 On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:46:40PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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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