Re: [Evolution] Problem with locking mbox

["Sejal Patel" <spatel agency com>]

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I've had that problem since day one.  What I think it was an accidental 
deletion of personal mail thing they may have done.  Anyway, what I did to 
bypass that was create a symbolic link to the /var/spool/mail/??? file in the 
evolution folder and tell evolution to use the symbolic link for mail 
grabbing instead.

On Thursday 25 January 2001 12:02 pm, Christopher Lee wrote:
| Hi --
|
| I reinstalled my Debian Linux system when my hard disk failed (and was
| replaced), reinstalled Ximian Gnome and Evolution 0.8, and then unpacked
| my old evolution directory into /home/chlee/evolution from a tarfile.
| Everything works great except that when I try to import my new mail I
| get the error "Error while fetching email from mbox:/var/mail/chlee:
| Could not create lock file for /var/mail/chlee: Permission denied".  I
| couldn't figure-out where it was trying to create a lock file by looking
| at the results from strace (I haven't used lockfiles yet in my own
| programming so my intuition is no help).
|
| Can anyone suggest what I might do to get my mail importing to work
| again?  I'm not sure how easy it would be for me to track down by
| browsing CVS sources.....  Maybe a directory permission is set
| incorrectly on my reinstalled system?
|
| Thanks for your help,
|  -Chris
|
| p.s. Evolution is going to be awesome -- keep up the good work
| guys+gals!

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Sejal Patel (spatel agency com)
Technical Consultant
Agency.com : Atlanta

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