From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:58:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7223D258-104B-4443-A1C7-3F4BCAADDDDE@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3a7b706-4b06-2bb7-1e10-a3c104b59d18@sys-concept.com>
On 10 December 2020 19:48:41 CET, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>On 12/10/2020 11:21 AM, Jack wrote:
>> On 2020.12.10 13:11, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>> When I try to select /var/spool/mail I get an error:
>>>
>>> The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a
>>> different directory.
>>>
>>> drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Dec 10 10:56 mail
>>>
>>> Why Thunderbird can not read that directory?
>> Are you running TBird as root? Are you sure you don't want one lower
>> level directory, such as /var/spool/mail/root or something like that?
>
>No, I run TBird as user.
>On my other system the running TBird, as user, I can access
>/var/spool/mail dir.
>But on my main system I get an error:
>
>The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a
>different directory.
>
>I check directory permission and they look OK.
Are you in the "mail" group?
--
Joost
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-10 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-10 18:11 [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid thelma
2020-12-10 18:21 ` Jack
2020-12-10 18:48 ` thelma
2020-12-10 18:58 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2020-12-10 20:29 ` thelma
2020-12-10 21:33 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-10 22:08 ` thelma
2020-12-10 22:23 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-10 22:48 ` thelma
2020-12-10 23:13 ` Rich Freeman
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