Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:21:27
Message-Id: 5HTFJ5BE.5KHMMMFQ.JEHAQBPL@SHE2L7AE.XVQI7QGA.NNCUYPRV
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On 2020.12.10 13:11, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > When I try to select /var/spool/mail I get an error:
3 >
4 > The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a
5 > different directory.
6 >
7 > drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Dec 10 10:56 mail
8 >
9 > Why Thunderbird can not read that directory?
10 Are you running TBird as root? Are you sure you don't want one lower
11 level directory, such as /var/spool/mail/root or something like that?

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Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. thelma@×××××××××××.com