Re: thunderbird and mail from the system

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 11/05/05

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    Michael Marsh on 17/05/05 13:18, wrote:
    > On 5/17/05, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
    >
    >>Is it possible to set up Thunderbird to pull up the mail from my mailbox
    >>on my debian box?
    >
    >
    > Thunderbird calls this a "Unix movemail" account. I have one set up
    > for cron output.
    >

    I am trying to set up thunderbird to get my mailbox mail, but I get a
    message so:

    "Unable to create lock file /var/mail/adam.lock. For movemail to work it
    is necessary to create lock files in the mail spool directory. On many
    systems, this is best accomplished by making the spool directory mode
    01777."

    Currently, /var/mail has these permissions:

    adam@gondor:~$ ls -la /var/mail/
    total 20
    drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2005-10-30 06:27 .
    drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2005-09-08 12:34 ..
    -rw-rw---- 1 adam mail 7415 2005-10-30 06:27 adam
    -rw------- 1 mail mail 3166 2005-03-10 00:31 mail

    I guess I'll do what Thunderbird advises, but I would like to know what
    the implications are, and why Thunderbird thinks its better to configure
    the system like this rather than how Debian does.

    Thanks
    Adam 

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