From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85374 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: movemail failing .. apparently permission issue Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:36:05 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87bnmzduoa.fsf@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419032140 23046 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2014 23:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:35:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33616@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Dec 20 00:35:33 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2752-0007Jd-7W for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:35:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y274G-0006V3-P5; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:34:44 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y274E-0006Uq-2J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:34:42 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2743-0006eS-6q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:34:41 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2741-0004K3-82 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:34:29 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y273z-0006pm-Ms for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:34:27 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([76.97.127.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:34:27 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:34:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F6+wFImkuVJrfb+jNETaZPVvq04= X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85374 Archived-At: 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?