Re: Initial Setup

[Nathan Clemons <nathan windsofstorm net>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:20:33 David Lu wrote:
> 
> i ran into this same problem.  my workaround is to quit,
> send an email to myself (so that i have a /var/spool/mail/xxx),
> then start balsa again.
> 
> 			- david -
> 

Will this be the de facto standard workaround for all people who encounter
this scenario?

> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:10:51 Nathan Clemons wrote:
> > Under my Mandrake 7.0 system, when I ran the CVS version of balsa, it
> > walked me through the setup very nicely. However, I did have a question.
> > Because I never had any mail sent to me on that machine, my mail file
> > (/var/spool/mail/nathan) had not been created. Balsa tried to do so and
> > could not, due to permission sets.
> 

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