Re: [Evolution] Problem with locking mbox

["Sejal Patel" <spatel agency com>]

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On Thursday 25 January 2001 04:05 pm, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
| 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.

Actually, I'm on a multiuser box (and thus cannot give those write 
permissions).  I know that I risk major mbox corruption (especially since I 
use fetchmail as an automated daemon) but there is nothing else that I can 
think to do to safely retrieve my mail.   BTW, don't lock files normally go 
in the /var/lock folder instead of the /var/spool/mail.

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