Re: [Evolution] Accessing remote mailboxes

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

We need to lock, otherwise you will lose/corrupt e-mail messages.

It just needs write access to the mail spool directory, which is done by
the right owner/group setuid/setgid on
'/usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/camel/camel-lock-helper'.  But, it also
checks the uid of the file is the same as you.  So if they're not you
might be screwed.

As an unsafe work-around, you could try setting up a link in another
local directory, but that wont get past the uid check either.

e.g.

~/foo/me

where foo is a local directory
and me is the softlink to the folder itself.

I dont know exactly why 1.0.x would have worked and 1.4.x not, the
locking stuff has been basically the same for a long while, I think.

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:59, Bryn Jeffries wrote:
> I originally ran the version of evolution bundled with Redhat 8.0 (Ev
> 1.0.4?). This was set up to collect mail from the home directory of
> another linux box, which I was connected to via Samba.
>
> Hence, Evolution would look at /home/me/othermachine/maillink
> where othermachine was an smb mounted directory to me othermachine 
> Maillink itself was a symlink to /var/spool/mail/me on othermachine.
>
> This may sound complicated, but it is the most expedient arrangement for
> my situation, and it worked. However, upon upgrading to Evolution 1.4.3,
> I now receive an error each time I check for mail:
>
>       Error while 'Fetching Mail':
>       Could not lock '/home/me/othermachine/maillink'
>
> Do I take it that some file-locking procedure is now being used? If so,
> is there a way around this? In the previous version of Evolution the
> contents of /home/me/othermachine/maillink were simply removed from the
> file and imported to the local Inbox. I have tried both "local delivery"
> and "Standard unix mbox spool" in settings -> receiving mail -> server
> type options. "Local delivery" gives the above error, whereas the spool
> option does not appear to do anything (no error, but no new email
> either).
>
> Regards,
>
> Bryn
>
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