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#! rnews 1345 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.elm Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Re: Elm does not like me :( Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.elm X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Forth EDV Beratung + Schulung Message-ID: <1996Jan23.204855.5444@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> References: <4e34av$fin@tzlink.j51.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:48:55 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13022 comp.mail.elm:18481 Brian Springstead (bspring@j51.com) wrote: : install. Well it compiled ok and installed, but every time I tried to : use elm I got something like: : Trying to read mailbox while receiving mail #x where x is a number of : tries. Hi, I had the very same problem under SunOS. It was a permissions problem in /var/spool/mail. The user mailboxes had the wrong permissions. Hope I could help you. Stephan -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 572610 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 574980