Re: [Evolution] evolution mbox error

[Abe Fettig <abe fettig net>]

Whoops!  Sorry for giving out bad advice.  Still, shouldn't evolution
handle this situation a little more gracefully?  It seems like having to
add users to the "mail" group is a little much - other mail clients I've
used haven't had this problem.

Abe


On 13 Mar 2001 16:05:11 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> No no no! don't use that symlink! eek eek eek!!
> 
> That's bad because there is no way for your sendmail (exim or whatever)
> to know that something is reading your mailbox and so there could be a
> time when both Evolution and sendmail are accessing the same mailbox
> file which would be a Bad Thing (tm).
> 
> A better workaround is to chmod the directory to 1777, or - perhaps even
> better still is to add yourself to the "mail" group in /etc/groups.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 13 Mar 2001 16:11:01 -0500, Abe Fettig wrote:
> > I've had the same problem.  As far as I can tell, evolution is trying to
> > create a lock file in the same directory that the mailbox file is in, so
> > if the mailbox file is in /var/mail, and you don't have permission to
> > write to /var/mail, you get that error.
> > 
> > As a quick fix, you can put a symbolic link from ~/evolution/my_mailbox
> > to the real mailbox file, and point evolution to the link file.  This
> > doesn't fix for the problem, of course, but it lets you work around it.
> > 
> > Abe
> > 
> > 
> > On 13 Mar 2001 22:42:53 +0200, Leon Chiver wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've tried to configure an account as a standard unix mailbox file, but
> > > I'm getting following error:
> > > 'Could not create lock file for /var/mail/leonas'. Can anyone help me
> > > out.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
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