[NTLUG:Discuss] Local mail problem

Fred James fredjame at concentric.net
Mon Aug 20 15:30:29 CDT 2001


In Netscape, .lock will normally be in .netscape within you home directory.


Patrick Parks wrote:

> On 20 Aug 2001 14:15:44 -0500, Greg Hewett wrote:
> 
>> > Will it be a .lock or something easy to recognize? Thanks
>> 
>> I believe so.
> 
>     ok, this is my /var/spool/mail Diectory. I do not see a lock file,
>     but are the permissions right?
>     for my settings in Evolution, my server type is "Unixmbox
>     spool-format mail files" and the path is /var/spool/mail/pparks The
>     error I get when I hit the send and recieve button is "Error while
>     'Fetching mail': Spool stores do not have an inbox" Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> [root at C1652034-d mail]# ls -alg
> 
> total 28
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         4096 Aug 20 15:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 Aug 15 04:58 ..
> -rw-------    1 pparks   mail         4755 Aug 19 02:46 pparks
> -rw-------    1 root     root         8806 Aug 20 15:03 root
> 
> 
>            ,,,,
>           (O O)
> +oOO-------(_)-----------+
> |     Patrick Parks      |
> |  www.patrickparks.com  |
> |patrick at patrickparks.com|
> +---------------------oOO+
>        |    |    |
>         |__| |__|
>          ||   ||
>         ooO   Ooo
> 


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