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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:48:40
Message-Id: c3a7b706-4b06-2bb7-1e10-a3c104b59d18@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. by Jack
1 On 12/10/2020 11:21 AM, Jack wrote:
2 > On 2020.12.10 13:11, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
3 >> When I try to select /var/spool/mail I get an error:
4 >>
5 >> The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a
6 >> different directory.
7 >>
8 >> drwxrwsr-t  2 root  mail 4096 Dec 10 10:56 mail
9 >>
10 >> Why Thunderbird can not read that directory?
11 > Are you running TBird as root?  Are you sure you don't want one lower
12 > level directory, such as /var/spool/mail/root or something like that?
13
14 No, I run TBird as user.
15 On my other system the running TBird, as user, I can access
16 /var/spool/mail dir.
17 But on my main system I get an error:
18
19 The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a
20 different directory.
21
22 I check directory permission and they look OK.

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Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>