Invalid inbox.

Invalid inbox.

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hello, everyone.
Ever since upgrading to Red Hat 9.0 I've had many problems getting mail
working which is unusual.
The first was a fetchmail problem which I solved, but another problem has
appeared which I am unable to solve.
After fetching mail from the earthlink pop server I can not find email in my
pine inbox, and infact pine clames there is no inbox.
I went to mutt, and was setting it up when mutt gave me the error:
"/var/spooler/mail/tward1978 is not a valid inbox."
I then created a test account, and mut and pine gave the same results. any
ideas what is wrong, and why all the mail programs seam to think my inboxes
are not valid inboxes?
Does anyone have any fixes, suggestions, or can lend a hand in this?
 Thanks.

Re: Invalid inbox.

[Buddy Brannan]

Yeah, sounds like (just from what you've said) that adding users
doesn't create mailboxes. This is easily fixed. Sorry, not running Red
Hat, but the procedure should be similar, excepting that the group
names might be different.

Do
touch /var/spool/mail/<mailboxname>

Then
chown <user> /var/spool/mail/<mailboxname> (probably both the same)
chgrp mail /var/spool/mail/*
chmod 660 /var/spool/mail/*

Naturally, you'll want to touch files for each of the mailboxes you
want (creating an empty file for mail to get saved into). 

Then try running your fetchmail.
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building speakup against 2.5.69

[Patrick Turnage]

Hello.
I want to modify the kernel used for the speakimage software. So I am going
to build a large kernel with everything I need but I have a buslink FW
IEE1394 hard drive and am going to buy a TI enabled FireWire IEE 1394 PCI
card and it appears the 2.5.69 kernels support this configuration. Am I
going to run in to any problems building speakup against this kernel? Does
FW IEE 1394 support exist in 2.4.20 or 21 can't remember the latest version..
Sincerely,
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Re: Invalid inbox.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Hi,

     When you use the useradd command, an empty file is created in 
/var/spool/mail.  The file is named for the user, is owned by the user, 
is in group mail, and has a mode of -rw-rw---
The spool directory is /var/spool, not /var/spooler.

          HTH.
-- 
          Bill in Denver


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
> Ever since upgrading to Red Hat 9.0 I've had many problems getting mail
> working which is unusual.
> The first was a fetchmail problem which I solved, but another problem has
> appeared which I am unable to solve.
> After fetching mail from the earthlink pop server I can not find email in my
> pine inbox, and infact pine clames there is no inbox.
> I went to mutt, and was setting it up when mutt gave me the error:
> "/var/spooler/mail/tward1978 is not a valid inbox."
> I then created a test account, and mut and pine gave the same results. any
> ideas what is wrong, and why all the mail programs seam to think my inboxes
> are not valid inboxes?
> Does anyone have any fixes, suggestions, or can lend a hand in this?
>  Thanks.
> 

Re: Invalid inbox.

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, bill. Thanks for correcting my typo.
However, the default path is failing. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

----- Original Message -----
From: William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 <wacker@octothorp.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Invalid inbox.


> Hi,
>
>      When you use the useradd command, an empty file is created in
> /var/spool/mail.  The file is named for the user, is owned by the user,
> is in group mail, and has a mode of -rw-rw---
> The spool directory is /var/spool, not /var/spooler.
>
>           HTH.
> --
>           Bill in Denver
>
>
> On Thu, 22 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
>
> > Hello, everyone.
> > Ever since upgrading to Red Hat 9.0 I've had many problems getting mail
> > working which is unusual.
> > The first was a fetchmail problem which I solved, but another problem
has
> > appeared which I am unable to solve.
> > After fetching mail from the earthlink pop server I can not find email
in my
> > pine inbox, and infact pine clames there is no inbox.
> > I went to mutt, and was setting it up when mutt gave me the error:
> > "/var/spooler/mail/tward1978 is not a valid inbox."
> > I then created a test account, and mut and pine gave the same results.
any
> > ideas what is wrong, and why all the mail programs seam to think my
inboxes
> > are not valid inboxes?
> > Does anyone have any fixes, suggestions, or can lend a hand in this?
> >  Thanks.
> >
>
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