Re: [Evolution] Problem with locking mbox

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I don't think that's a good solution because it defeats the purpose of
the lock.

Anyways, what you can do (and since you're probably on a single-user
box, it's not a huge deal) is to give your user write-permission to the
/var/spool/mail directory.

Evolution is trying to create a .lock file there so that your mail
doesn't get munged.

Jeff

On 25 Jan 2001 12:16:57 -0500, Sejal Patel wrote:
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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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