The permissions seem OK (although having them set to 660 is more appropriate). It seems you are attempting to read root's mail: Are you logged in directly as root, or did you use "su"? There is a difference between "su" and "su -" (the latter switches to root and makes the session a shell login; reading in root's full environment). At any rate, as root do "chmod 660 /var/spool/mail/root", then make sure you are fully logged in as root and try again (the permissions command I gave won't help this situation, but are more appropriate permissions for root's mail spool). On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 03:33, Mohan K Cavale wrote:
[root moni moni]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/root -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 443962 Nov 24 16:02 /var/spool/mail/root Can u please explain ? -MKC On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 14:44, Eric N. Valor wrote:do "ls -l /var/spool/mail/<userid>" where <userid> is your user ID, and post the results. On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:44, Mohan K Cavale wrote:Evolution is unable to retrieve messages from local mail spools. It gives the above error even when I copy the spool into my home dir and try to receive from there. Somebody please help. Mohan Kumar Cavale _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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