Re: [Evolution] permisions

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

You don't actually want to setgid evolution, if you wanted to work
around the problem that way then you'd want to setgid evolution-mail.
But the BEST way to solve this problem is to build with movemail
support.

Jeff

On 24 Jan 2001 23:46:03 -0500, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I took a deep breath (and made a backup) and pointed Evolution at my
> primary user mbox, /var/spool/mail/andrew
>
> When I asked Evolution to "Get Mail", it complained of a permision
> problem, being "Could not create lock file for /var/spool/mail/andrew
> Permission Denied"
>
> This made sense at first becuase I thought I needed to go and make
> /usr/bin/evolution chgrp mail and setgid (just like the other mail
> clients on my system). [Debian packager at Ximian - you might want to
> note that]
>
> But that didn't help - I've still got the same error. And no debug
> output is sent to the terminal I run evo from. 
>
> Any ideas? This has been going on for a couple days now. Running the
> .deb snapshot apt'd from spidermonkey.ximian.com. 
>
>       Andrew
>
>
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