From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60754 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:18:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124075979 1155 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2005 03:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9286=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 05:19:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4VUx-0007NI-Sk for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:18:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4VUx-0006Qm-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4VUt-0006Qe-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4VUr-0001qv-BV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4UYk-00031M-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from davestoy.homelinux.org.verizon.net ([68.163.198.226]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IL8008CAUIXPT3L@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:18:41 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-reply-to: (Rodolfo Medina's message of "Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:33:57 +0000 (UTC)") Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.7 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60754 >>>>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:33:57 +0000 (UTC), Rodolfo Medina said: > Now, the problem is that the desired directory is /mnt/windows, > and gnus refuses to store mail there, maybe because of a matter of > permissions. But the command `$ ls -l /mnt' shows that the > dir /mnt/windows is writable by all users. > How can I work the problem out? /mnt/windows sounds suspiciously like a network mount, in particular, one from a windows based server. UNIX permissions may not, and in fact probably do not, apply. You need to look at the permissions on the server side, in their native form, and figure out what you have to open up to allow writing from the network. -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net