Read-only /var/spool/mail problems

[Chris Janicki]

How about Netscape's mail?  It's earned some critical acclaim, and my mom 
actually uses it!  You can't get any better at displaying HTML or images 
either.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 4/21/01, 8:34:59 AM, Duane Morin <dmorin at morinfamily.com> wrote 
regarding Read-only /var/spool/mail problems:


> We only use Linux at my house.  My wife needs a nice simple email program 
that
> will allow her to see the various HTML and image attachments that people 
send
> her.  Thus far I've been using Balsa, and happy with it.  The problem?  
Balsa
> seems very sensitive to the rights on /var/spool/mail.  You need to have 
it
> be world writeable in order for her to manage her mail (i.e. delete from 
her
> inbox).  Even if I change this, then periodically root comes along and 
changes
> it back and she gets all confused.

> Any suggestions on how to get around this?  I don't have the problem 
personally
> because I use exmh and have to hit a specific button to get my mail, 
which
> copies /var/spool/mail/xxxx to a local mbox directory and I can do 
whatever I
> want.  But I don't think she'd love the exmh interface.

> Duane


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