[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[James Kerr]

On 25/06/2012 12:54, James Kerr wrote:
> On 25/06/2012 11:36, Anne Wilson 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?
>>
>
> I don't have this problem. I use postfix to deliver system mails to
> /var/spool/mail/jim. (I don't use it for any other purpose.) Thunderbird
> collects those and stores them in
> ~/.thunderbird/xxx.default/Mail/localhost/inbox (where xxx is an
> alphanumeric string). /var/spool/mail/jim is owned by jim.
>
> The process is the same on both my Mageia2 and cauldron installations.
>
> That error message suggests to me that there is something about the file
> in /var/spool/mail/anne that is not what thunderbird expects, but I've
> no idea what that might be. The only thought I have is that for some
> reason that file is read only instead of read/write.
>
> Jim
>

Sorry - one point that I forgot to mention. /var/spool/mail/anne is only 
created when the first message is delivered and so thunderbird reports 
that it cannot find it until mails start being delivered to it.