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Hopefully some emacs/gnus adept will have some idea what's going here. |
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I've hit a snag after deciding to use the gentoo approach to acquiring |
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and tracking a fast moving emacs from bzr sources. |
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I've emerged emacs-vcs and a few required pkgs. |
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After adjusting my emacs init files to suit the new arrangement, when I |
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fire up gnus; I hit failure of `movemail' soon as it tries to check and |
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pull mail. |
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(From *Messages* buffer) |
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| Reading incoming mail from directory... |
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| Processing mail from ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box... |
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| Reading incoming mail from file... |
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| movemail: Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry (1 return). Continue? (y or n) n |
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| Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) error (Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry). Continue? (y or n) n |
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| Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) failed: (error Cannot get new mail) |
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| nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done |
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Something in those permisssions is set wrong: |
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ls -ld /var/spool/mail |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 mail root 4096 Dec 19 13:30 /var/spool/mail |
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ls -l /var/spool/mail |
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total 4 |
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-rw------- 1 harry nfsu 676 Dec 19 13:30 harry |
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ls -l /usr/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9552 Dec 19 16:19 hexl |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22016 Dec 19 16:19 movemail |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5412 Dec 19 16:19 profile |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21067 Dec 19 16:19 rcs2log |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9636 Dec 19 16:19 update-game-score |
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On other Linux OSs I vaguely recall something about movemail being |
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setuid or setgid or maybe both.... perhaps that is the problem. |
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I tried both but the error didn't change |
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