Re: [Evolution] permisions

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Because we can't build packages with movemail support because we don't
know where your movemail program lives.

And all you need to do is give your user write provs to /var/spool/mail

Jeff

On 25 Jan 2001 02:19:55 -0500, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> 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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