Re: retrieving email ?

["David M . Stowell" <dmstowell ameritech net>]

On 2001.10.24 13:43 Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> On 2001.10.24 20:33:25 +0200 Mike McCue wrote:
> > I set the mailbox at /home/mike/mail/, but balsa is complaining that 
> this
> > isn't a valid mailbox.  What constitutes a 'valid' mailbox ?
> 
> no, this is only 50% of your answer..
> 
> root@ulixys:/home/galaxy > ls -l mail/
> total 54952
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users    14867242 Oct 24 20:41 balsa
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Oct 24 00:30 draftbox
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users     2665291 Oct 24 01:06 evolution
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users      610474 Oct 24 00:30 ewe
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users    11302036 Oct 24 20:41 galeon
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users       17697 Oct 24 00:30 guestbook
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users        3398 Oct 24 00:30 noten
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Oct 24 20:04 outbox
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users    16671963 Oct 24 20:04 sentbox
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Oct 24 00:30 trash
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users    10093041 Oct 24 20:12 vim
> 
> root@ulixys:/var/spool > ls -l mail/
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users    15831800 Oct 24 15:57 galaxy
> 
> thats valid

Almost. Your first half is valid if you're using mbox mailboxes (Maildir, 
which I use, is different). The standard Inbox is 
/var/spool/mail/"username", where "username" is the name of the user in 
question. The permissions on /var/spool/mail should be 1777 (sticky bit 
on), which may be what your problem is.

David M. Stowell
<dmstowell@ameritech.net>