[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:55:57 +1000
Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> 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."
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Doug.
> 
Sorry about the two emails.  The first one just disappeared from my
composer window, and I thought it was cancelled.

Doug.