Subject: Re: Mail/sendmail problem - Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied
To: Dave Millen <webmaster@largesalad.co.uk>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/12/1998 20:41:22
In message <35A8E4CF.BFABD3B5@globalnet.co.uk>, Dave Millen writes:
>Does anyone know why the following happens for any user other than root?
Yes. /var/mail isn't suitably writable for users to do dot-locking. This
is periodically complained about, but I have yet to see a proper fix put in
for it.
-s