"Roderick Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the >mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out: > >Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied > >Now if I use mutt, I can delete the message, but what is wrong with >mail/mailx?
mailx was made no longer setgid mail in a potato security update because it was too riddled with security holes, and hence it doesn't have write permissions to the /var/mail directory. You can still use it for sending mail, but unless you explicitly chmod g+s it yourself you can't really use it for reading mail sensibly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
