On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 01:06 Europe/Helsinki, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission problems:
Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) failed: Permission denied Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/esj: Permission denied
Hmh. I guess I'll really have to fix this too soon since everyone keeps having this problem.
so I changed permissions on /var/spool/mail to 777 as a temporary work around. no luck. It tells me that I have no e-mail in my inbox... fat chance
Maybe it thinks the mbox is synchronized even while it stopped in error. Try rm -f .imap/INBOX/.imap.index*. Or just touching the mbox.
Mixing mboxes and maildirs isn't possible with .10, but will be in next version.