On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:26:17PM -0000, lists at barrettpianos.co.uk wrote: > This is what I have done. > [destination] > type = Mboxrd > path = /var/mail/keith I had this same problem, and couldn't get getmail to write to the /var/mail directory, even with file permissions seeming right. I had to settle for writing to ~/mbox instead, or go through setting up the system to use the "type = MDA_external" feature and pass things through the mailserver to the /var/mail dir. Anyway, I'm sure you need "mail" group permission to write to /var/mail. I use an alias called "mb" to have mutt read the mbox file: alias mb='mutt -f ~/mbox' I load aliases at login by placing them in the ~/.bashrc file. (Actually, a ~/.aliases file is sourced to make things easier to modify on the fly, but that's another story.) alias Saliases='alias > ~/.aliases' Anyway, you may have read permission for /var/mail/keith, but not write permission to /var/mail, and that's causing the problem. HTH, Michael
