[2506] in RedHat Linux List
Re: ELM Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Cook)
Sun Nov 3 20:19:41 1996
From: James Cook <jrc8337@hi.registrar.ksu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 19:16:52 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199611030952.CAA02813@aspen.wwsi.com> from "Steve Hultquist" at Nov 3, 96 02:52:24 am
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> James> For some odd reason, ELM today decided that for my user account,
> James> mail was always going to be received. So every time I launch
> James> ELM it comes up with that message "Waiting for mail to be
> James> received" and times out after 7 seconds. The problem is I'm not
> James> receiving anything there. :/ Why for?
>
> Did you, perchance, configure ELM for POP?
Nope. Actually, the problem turned out to be permission problems on the /var/spool/mail directory. They were set to 755. I changed them to 777 and the problem went away. Is this proper?
={) James (}=
jrc8337@hi.registrar.ksu.edu
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