Re: [bug-mailutils] Troubleshooting mailutils

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hiran Chaudhuri <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> address@hidden:/var/spool/mail$ ls -la
> total 7428
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root  mail    4096 2008-04-11 09:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root  root    4096 2008-03-21 17:33 ..
> -rw-------  1 hiran mail 7581762 2008-04-11 06:05 hiran

Mailutils should have enough permissions to create lockfile and
temporary expunge file in /var/spool/mail. In your case, it will
be able to do so only if you are a member of group 'mail'. Are you?
Try to create an arbitrary file in /var/spool/mail to verify.

Regards,
Sergey