Re: [Evolution] Req 4 help: Evo Locking of mail spools

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

The problem is that in order to lock a mailbox, the program that does it
must have write access to that directory.

Evolution uses an external setgid program to do it called
camel-lock-helper which should be located in /usr/sbin/ or whatever your
distro would put it.

anyways, make sure it is setgid, if not: chmod 2755
/usr/sbin/camel-lock-helper

Jeff

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 21:52, Glenn Davy wrote:
> At the moment I'm using fetchmail to fetch my various mail items and
> receiving it into evolution with 'local delivery'. This works fine IF my
> /var/spool/mail directory has 777 permissions. However linuxconf always
> sets it back to 775 - in this case evolution complains that it can't
> lock the file. 
> The ownerof the mail directory is root:mail, and I am part of group
> mail, which I thought would make all the difference - but it doesn't.
> BTW - Pine can retrieve mail from this spool file if that gives any
> clues?
> Any ideas anyone?
> Glenn
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