On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > For no discernable reason, mutt now tells me that "Mailbox is read > only" whenever I try to modify it. It's a standard mail file sitting > in /var/spool/mail, and its permissions are rw -- I can use it > normally from elm.
I had this happen to me a while back, but it might not be the same problem as yours. The problem was that file locking wasn't working properly. But if this was the case on your system I think elm would complain also. See if pine complains. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V-- PS PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 !X-- R+ tv-- b+>++++ DI+ G+ e>+++>++++(*) h--- r+++ y?