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On 10 December 2020 19:48:41 CET, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>On 12/10/2020 11:21 AM, Jack wrote: |
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>> On 2020.12.10 13:11, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>>> When I try to select /var/spool/mail I get an error: |
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>>> |
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>>> The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a |
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>>> different directory. |
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>>> |
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>>> drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Dec 10 10:56 mail |
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>>> |
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>>> Why Thunderbird can not read that directory? |
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>> Are you running TBird as root? Are you sure you don't want one lower |
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>> level directory, such as /var/spool/mail/root or something like that? |
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>No, I run TBird as user. |
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>On my other system the running TBird, as user, I can access |
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>/var/spool/mail dir. |
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>But on my main system I get an error: |
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> |
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>The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a |
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>different directory. |
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> |
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>I check directory permission and they look OK. |
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Are you in the "mail" group? |
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Joost |
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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