Thunderbird lock files

JT Moree moreejt at pcxperience.com
Thu Jun 7 21:50:48 MST 2007


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Joseph Prestia wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your assistance. My mail now is working sending
> and receiving and I am using Thunderbird to check it. But when it starts
> up I get the error "Unable to create lock file
> /var/spool/mail/joey.lock. For movemail to work it is nessary to create
> lock files in the mail spool directory. On many systems it is best
> accomplished by making the spool directory be mode 01777" So i execute
> chmod 01777 /var/spool/mail and this fixes the problem. But the next
> time I start Thunderbird I get the same response again from Thunderbird.
> It seems somehow the permissions are getting reset by Postfix or I have
> no idea. Can this be a distribution specific problem?  I'm using
> Mandriva Powerpack 2007 on a 64 bit machine.

you have to install another package . . . can't remember which one . . .
ah!  movemail is in mailutils.  try to find and install mailutils or
some other package that has the movemail command.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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