Re: [Evolution] lock failed...

[NotZed <notzed helixcode com>]

No thats bullshit, mail dir permissions of 1777 are perfectly safe
on multiuser systems.

But some systems are a bit anal about "security" and make it 
setgid mail, and some require setuid root permissions to set .locks.

Anyway, I said eons ago we should have an external movemail progra
but nobody listened.

> The reason this failed as a normal user is because it doesn't have the
> required permissions to create a file in /var/spool/mail/
>
> We are aware of this problem and we will probably need to write an external
> movemail program that can be set setuid (you wouldn't want evolution to be
> setuid ;-)
>
> A temp fix is to give your user access to create files there, but for a
> multiuser system I wouldn't suggest it
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Frank Ramsay wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:12:40 -0400
> > To: evolution helixcode com
> > From: Frank Ramsay <fjr marsdome penguinpowered com>
> > Subject: [Evolution] lock failed...
> >
> >
> > I just downloaded the preview 2 of evolution and it looks pretty good,
> > but when
> > I try and check my mail with it I get the following error:
> >
> > Unable to move mail:
> > Could not create lock file for /var/spool/mail/fjr: Permission denied
> >
> > This is a user account.  I also tried this using root and it worked fine.
> > Has anyone else had this problem?  How do you get it to work for a user
> > account.
> >
> >                             -fjr
> >
> >  -- 
> > Frank J. Ramsay
> > fjr marsdome penguinpowered com
> >
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