Re: Balsa 2.5.2 "Failure to sync mailbox xxxx"

[Fred Smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 08:04:20PM -0500, Jack wrote:
> On 2016.01.13 19:20, Fred Smith wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've just compiled Balsa 2.5.2, which went without significant
> > issue. but when I open my main mailbox, clicking on some messages
> > elicits a warning box pop up saying "Failed to sync mailbox xxx".
> >
> > I see that message could originate in any of a bazillion (more or
> > less) places in the program, but haven't yet figured out which
> > one, nor know what it actually is trying to tell me. what problem
> > causes this?
> >
> > anyone know a magic incantation to solve it?
>
> When you say your main mailbox, do you mean inbox?  What type of
> mailbox is it?  mbox, maildir, MH, ...?  Are you having trouble just
> opening the local mailbox, or actually trying to sync with a remote
> server?  POP3 or IMAP?  You can also start balsa from the command
> line using -d (debug POP) or -D (debug IMAP) to get more information
> on what might be going wrong with syncing.

sorry for the lack of details.

I run a mail server on my personal Linux box, at home, with my own
domain. Sendmail delivers to procmail which does the final delivery
to mbox mail folders.

in my home directory is a subdir named "Mail" that contains a symlink
to /var/spool/mail/fredex, so that mutt (what I have always used)
accesses all my mail folders in ~/fredex/Mail.

So, I can't prove the message I mention doesn't happen in other mailboxes,
but I've seen it in the "fredex" mailbox. usually if there's an unread
mail, I click on it and get that message.

ls -l /home/fredex/Mail/fredex /var/spool/mail/fredex
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fredex fredex         22 Feb 24  2013 /home/fredex/Mail/fredex -> /var/spool/mail/fredex
-rw-rw----. 1 fredex fredex 2309646535 Jan 13 20:43 /var/spool/mail/fredex

I don't see any reason why -rw-rw---- isn't adequate, as long as the
mailbox is owned by me, which it is. Does Balsa need more relaxed
permissions than that?

This is a new installation of Centos-7. Previously I was using Centos-6
and it had Balsa 2.4.14. In looking at the backup of that prior system,
I see that /var/spool/mail/fredex looks like this:

-rw-r-----. 1 root root 2300888945 Dec  2 14:53 fredex

is Balsa complaining because the permissions are TOO permissive?

Thanks for the reply!

Fred

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