From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: movemail failing .. apparently permission issue
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:36:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnmzduoa.fsf@reader.local.lan> (raw)
Setup:
Very new install of Gentoo linux
GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2)
of 2014-12-19 on gv
(Installed thru gentoo manager (emerge/portage) emacs-vcs)
(Gets installed from bzr repo)
When starting gnus:
I get a failure of movemail being unable to access some part of the
setup. Apparently either /var/spool/mail or ~/spool
(from *Messages* buffer)
,----
| Reading incoming mail from directory...
| Processing mail from ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box...
| Reading incoming mail from file...
| movemail: Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry (1 return). Continue? (y or n) n
| Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) error (Permission denied for /var/spool/mail/harry). Continue? (y or n) n
| Mail source (file :path /var/spool/mail/harry) failed: (error Cannot get new mail)
`----
/var/spool/mail is set mail:root and octal 755
drwxr-xr-x 2 mail root 4096 Dec 19 13:30 mail
Actual mail file: /var/spool/mail/harry
-rw------- 1 harry nfsu 676 Dec 19 13:30 harry
My spool area in ~ is Myuser:Mygroup octal 755
`movemail' is set root:root octal 755
ls -l /usr/libexec/emacs/25.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22016 Dec 19 16:19 movemail
Anyone here understand what is happening?
next reply other threads:[~2014-12-20 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-20 0:36 Harry Putnam [this message]
2014-12-20 8:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-20 12:59 ` Harry Putnam
2014-12-21 21:05 ` Harry Putnam
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