[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

[Frank Griffin]

On 06/25/2012 06:36 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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".
>
Try running TB under strace, e. g.

    strace -f -o /tmp/strace -e trace=open,read,write thunderbird

and check the /tmp/strace output for an open or I/O error related to 
that file after the error occurs.