mutt 1.4.1 + mbox = spollfile * readonly

Thunnus · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Brazil

After I upgraded my mutt from 1.4 to 1.4.1 I haven't more been able to write my spoolfile (/var/spool/mail/myusername). I'm using mbox pattern, fetchmail and procmail.

I looked at /etc/mutt/Muttrc and can't found a reason for that change. I tried to use the old Muttrc of 1.4 but no succes. To confirm that was due the upgrade I did a downgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.4 and the write access at spoolfile was back again. After another upgrade to 1.4.1 I lost write permission again.

Is that limitation a security improvement? If is that, how can I grant to me permission to move or delete emails that arrived at my spoolfile? I can read and copy but can't delete.

Thank you and sorry to didn't do my own homework. :oops:

needles · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:03 am Post subject:

Does anyone have a solution for this? I'm having the same issue.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20588

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b1c1l1 · n00b Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 39

Hi,

I believe this is because the owner of your /var/spool/mail folder is set to root:root, thus no user except for root would be able to write to it. Try the following as root: