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Subject: Re: Postfix and mutt interoperability problem (locking!)
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 12:46:41 CST

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:26:43PM +0000, Lukas Efler wrote:

> the mailfile /var/spool/mail/<username> is created (by postfix, i assume) with
> permissions 600, don't know whether this is ok, debian afaik is using groups
> in a strange way, each user also has his own group and everything is setgid'ed...
>
> what troubles me is that it doesn't seem to be a permission problem (see post
> below, i can access the mailbox like it should be when giving the whole path).
> i'm not even sure it's a postfix problem, it's just that it wasn't there before...

What locking does mutt use?
Show some output of "mutt -v"!

mutt has problems with locking (the mailbox), so it might be interesting to
see how your mutt performs locking. What are the permissions of
your "mutt_dotlock" file? 

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