On Dec 28, 2015, at 2:31 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:
> With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is > satisfied by the s-nail package. > As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files. > For example: > >> rbthomas@half:~$ mail >> Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/rbthomas" ..... >> Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied >> Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/rbthomas" ..... >> Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied >> rbthomas@half:~$ > > I don’t know if this is deliberate, or even whether this is the right fix, > but the error can be made to go away by doing: > >> sudo chown root:mail /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep >> sudo chmod g+s /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep > > If the consensus is that it’s a bug, not a feature, I’ll submit a bug report. > I guess s-nail is the appropriate package? > > Enjoy! > Rick Turns out, that this is bug #806858. Rick
