[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Anne Wilson]

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On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> 
> wrote:
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>> Plain M2 :-)  Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message
>> that it couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the
>> exact words). Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched
>> that, owned anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is
>> "Unable to truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne".
>> 
>> I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked 
>> there, and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I guess
>> something has changed wrt local mail.  Are we now talking about 
>> ~/.local/share/local-mail/ ?  What do I need to do now?
>> 
>> Anne - --
> /var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne. 
> Thunderbird will be putting your mail somewhere else.  I suspect
> that it will be a dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a
> subdirectory of your .mozilla directory.
> 
> I think that TB uses the mbox file format.  That means that your 
> inbox will be one big file.  Perhaps TB is trying to delete the
> old mails, hence "truncate."
> 
That makes sense, yes.  I had assumed that it was talking about system
messages, which I would expect to be in /var/spool/mail/anne.

I am using IMAP - not Disconnected IMAP - IOW, I don't store mail
locally (though I did previously), so that shouldn't be the problem.
All the same, I'll give it some thought.

Thanks

Anne
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