/var/mail/$USER read-only

Thu Nov 8 03:13:46 UTC 2018

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:25:31PM -0500, benfitzg at gmail.com wrote:
> My linux mail box is /var/mail/$USER, previously I had read and deleted mails
> from this mailbox, now I get an error message from mutt, telling me the mailbox
> is read-only.

It may be that something is wrong with your mutt_dotlock program.  Did
you configure --with-mailpath=/var/mail?  What are the permissions of
/var/mail?  Is your mutt_dotlock setgid?

Also you may want to check for a stale lockfile in the /var/mail
directory.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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