Re: new user setup questions

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:36:10PM -0600, Paul Bary wrote:
> I am a new gnome and Balsa user and I am attempting to use the Balsa
> version
> shipping with RH 7.1. A couple of questions/problems have come up right
> off
> the bat....
> 
> 1. When setting up Balsa using the wizards that come at first
> startup...the
> setup wizard points to the /var/spool/mail/username for the inbox
> directory
> put cannot create the neccesary file. I presume this is a permissions
> issue
> and have changed this to /home/username/mail/inbox. This allows setup to
> 

correct. this is true for RH and some others. the create users scripts
don't make the user mailbox and the directory permissions don't allow
the user to make it himself.
i just added a message about that to the current cvs

> complete and the program accessing mail from a remote pop server seems
> to
> work BUT....
> 
> 2. When I attempt to delete a message, I get an unable to access message
> 
> body error message (but the message does in fact delete). I suspect
> these issues
> are related and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction
> to
> get this thing configured properly...
> 

could you please detail the balsa version you're using ?
i recall some bugs related to that in past versions but it seems weird
anyway


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