[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Doug Laidlaw]

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".
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> I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked there,
> and there is no  at all.  I suspect that it will be in a d - 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
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/var/spool/mail/anne is the address of your local mailbox for user
anne.  Your mauilbox for Thuunderbird will be somewhere else.  For
example, I download mail into /var/spool/mail/doug, and my email client
(kmail, currently claws-mail) moves it to the client's mailbox.  If you
are downloading mail diectly from the Internet with Thunderbird, you
won't be using /var/spool/mail/anne