Re: [Evolution] Problem with locking mbox

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Lock files for mail go into /var/spool/mail

Jeff

On 25 Jan 2001 16:33:10 -0500, Sejal Patel wrote:
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> On Thursday 25 January 2001 04:05 pm, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> | I don't think that's a good solution because it defeats the purpose of
> | the lock.
> |
> | Anyways, what you can do (and since you're probably on a single-user
> | box, it's not a huge deal) is to give your user write-permission to the
> | /var/spool/mail directory.
> |
> | Evolution is trying to create a .lock file there so that your mail
> | doesn't get munged.
>
> Actually, I'm on a multiuser box (and thus cannot give those write 
> permissions).  I know that I risk major mbox corruption (especially since I 
> use fetchmail as an automated daemon) but there is nothing else that I can 
> think to do to safely retrieve my mail.   BTW, don't lock files normally go 
> in the /var/lock folder instead of the /var/spool/mail.
>
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