Re: balsa crashing

[Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:55:04PM +0100, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> On 2001.03.20 18:16:57 +0100 Brandon wrote:
> > I have no idea what i did, but balsa will not run under 1 account(works
> > fine under others). I try starting from the command line and I get the
> > error messg. 
> > 
> > Balsa cannot open you "Inbox" mailbox
> > Could not load basic mailboxes
> > invalid cast from null ptr to gtkwindow
> > file gnome-dialog.c line 384 (gnome_dialog_set_parent: assertion `parent
> > != null failed
> > etc...
> 
> jesus this is old....
> 
> read the README...
> 
> login as root
> 
> cd /var/spool
> chmod 1777 mail

This is very bad advice.

Don't do it unless you are confident you understand your mail systems
and the implications of it.

On many systems, the correct permissions for mail /var/spool/mail are 
rwxrwsr-t.  Giving world write access to /var/spool/mail is a
potential security hole.

Jules