hi,
yes, I installed mutt as root. here is the ls -l o/p of /usr/local/bin
where mutt is installed:
(earth)ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 3031
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 3047603 Aug 28 19:01 mutt*
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 54665 Aug 28 19:01 mutt_dotlock*
Also ls -l o/p of /var/mail/root is
(earth)ls -l /var/mail/root
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root mail 2694 Aug 28 19:04 /var/mail/root
I still cannot delete mails from my mailbox. The same error "Mailbox is
readonly"
Also any hint on why mails cannot be sent with mutt? I can send mails
using pine or elm.
Thanks in advance,
Raju
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
> Raju --
>
> I don't know about your disappearing mail problem, but I bet that your
> read-only mailbox problem is because mutt_dotlock, installed in the
> same directory as mutt, is not running with the mail group id.
>
> To test, see if you can open some other mailbox instead of your inbox
> and make any changes. To check, you can also ls -ld /your/spool/dir
> and see if it's ownership and permission are something like root.mail
> and 775.
>
> Check your make otuput and see what happens when you installed; were
> you root?
>
>
> :-D
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