Re: [Evolution] evolution mbox error

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

No no no! don't use that symlink! eek eek eek!!

That's bad because there is no way for your sendmail (exim or whatever)
to know that something is reading your mailbox and so there could be a
time when both Evolution and sendmail are accessing the same mailbox
file which would be a Bad Thing (tm).

A better workaround is to chmod the directory to 1777, or - perhaps even
better still is to add yourself to the "mail" group in /etc/groups.

Jeff

On 13 Mar 2001 16:11:01 -0500, Abe Fettig wrote:
> I've had the same problem.  As far as I can tell, evolution is trying to
> create a lock file in the same directory that the mailbox file is in, so
> if the mailbox file is in /var/mail, and you don't have permission to
> write to /var/mail, you get that error.
>
> As a quick fix, you can put a symbolic link from ~/evolution/my_mailbox
> to the real mailbox file, and point evolution to the link file.  This
> doesn't fix for the problem, of course, but it lets you work around it.
>
> Abe
>
>
> On 13 Mar 2001 22:42:53 +0200, Leon Chiver wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've tried to configure an account as a standard unix mailbox file, but
> > I'm getting following error:
> > 'Could not create lock file for /var/mail/leonas'. Can anyone help me
> > out.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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