Re: [Evolution] permisions

[Andrew Cowie <afcowie upoc-inc com>]

Uh, forgive me, but why would evolution have to be rebuilt with a
compile time option enabled? (I'm using the pre-built nightly snapshot,
by the wayi, not building from scratch)

Isn't a standard mbox (ie /var/spool/mail) one of Evolution's primary
sources of incoming mail? If so, why wouldn't whatever support is
necessary be included all ready?

Regards,

        Andrew
 


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> 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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