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  GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/<user> Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2022-01-27 20:30 +0100
    Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/<user> didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 09:10 +0100
      Re: Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/<user> Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 14:50 +0100
        Re: Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/<user> didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 15:20 +0100
          Re: Re: Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/<user> Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 18:20 +0100

#244691 — GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/<user>

Hi,


I use Sid but this problem came back to me a while ago now.
Searching the internet for a solution, I dug around and ended up in the
following:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/640705
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107881
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598502

I just put the first issue at Ubuntu launchpad because I wrote it and I forgot
that!! :-D
The 2 last reports are archived so not very «accessible».

What is going on? (unsupported?)
Do I have to create a new one?

Thanks,
Patrice

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#244708

Hello,

Pretty old bugs you dug up: more than 10 and 20 years old ;-)

Here (Bullseye, Evolution 3.38, Exim standard setup (local only)), with
an Evolution dedicated local account set up to send (server type:
sendmail) and receive (server type: local distribution in
/var/mail/didier), I have no problem.

But:
- I directly use /var/mail/didier, not /var/spool/mail/didier
(/var/spool/mail is a link to /var/mail)
- I use this mail account in Evolution it only for local distribution,
I do not send/receive external mails, for this I use ordinary IMAP/SMTP
ISP mail accounts (gmail.com, free.fr, ...)
- My main use of this local account is to receive various system
messages (unattended-upgrades, apt-listbugs and so on)

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#244716

Hello,

That more or less exactly the same on my side.
I should have wrote /var/mail/<user> in fact.
(The old bug affected me too much! :-D)
And it is just to read all the emails (root) aliased to my user.

Just in case that that a package version as introduce some change to the
following:

patrice@kos-moceratops ~> ls -l /usr/libexec/camel-lock-helper-1.2 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22784 14 janv. 13:15 /usr/libexec/camel-lock-helper-1.2

(no setuid, etc.)

Thanks!

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#244720

Le vendredi 28 janvier 2022 à 14:32 +0100, Patrice Duroux a écrit :

[...]
> Just in case that that a package version as introduce some change to
> the
> following:
> 
> patrice@kos-moceratops ~> ls -l /usr/libexec/camel-lock-helper-1.2 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22784 14 janv. 13:15 /usr/libexec/camel-lock-
> helper-1.2
> 
> (no setuid, etc.)
[...]

Here:

didier@hp-notebook14:~$ ls -al /usr/libexec/camel-lock-helper*
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 22704 25 janv.  2021 /usr/libexec/camel-lock-
helper-1.2

this is the same version but here it is GID mail instead of root, and
setuid GID at execution

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#244741

Hmm!
Ok before saying there is a possible bug, I will try to remove evolution-data-
server, install it again, and check!
Currently with Sid I have:

patrice@kos-moceratops ~> LANG=C apt --installed list "evolution*"
Listing... Done
evolution-common/unstable,unstable,now 3.42.3-1 all [installed]
evolution-data-server-common/unstable,unstable,now 3.42.3-1 all [installed]
evolution-data-server/unstable,now 3.42.3-1 amd64 [installed]
evolution-ews/unstable,now 3.42.3-1 amd64 [installed]
evolution-plugin-bogofilter/unstable,now 3.42.3-1 amd64 [installed]
evolution-plugin-pstimport/unstable,now 3.42.3-1 amd64 [installed]
evolution-plugins/unstable,now 3.42.3-1 amd64 [installed]
evolution/unstable,now 3.42.3-1 amd64 [installed]

Let see...

Thanks again!

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