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Re: Mutt can not delete mails

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Am Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2021, 15:38:34 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
Hi Greg,

of course I can. This is step-by-step what I do:

Starting mutt from the commandline as normal user.  Mutt in ncurses appears. 
Now I want to mark and delete all mails. I press Shift+D, then it asks the for 
the sample and I press . (dot) and * (asterix). 

By pressing the "Enter" key all mails are marked ND+.

Now pressing "q" (for quit) and it asks me "20 as deletion marked mails 
delete? ([yes]/no):" (Note, I have a German environment, so it asks me in 
German. This sentence a translated by me).
 
I answer yes, and it appears "temporary file could not be created".

Pressing again "q" and now answer "no", mutt closes.

Does this help?

Best regards

Hans

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:21:47PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I got into an issue with mutt. Problem is, mutt can not delete mails and I
> > myself can not delete the file below /var/mail/.
> 
> You are not *supposed* to delete your entire inbox file.  You're only
> supposed to modify it, potentially reducing the size of it to 0 bytes.
> 
> That said, I've been using $HOME/Maildir/ for decades, so I don't know
> how Debian currently manages the /var/mail/* mbox files that it defaults
> to.  /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock is setgid mail on my system, the same as
> on yours.  /var/mail is writable by group mail (same as yours), so that
> appears to be OK.
> 
> Can you give us more details?  E.g. describe how you delete a single
> message from your inbox in mutt, and exactly what mutt does when you
> try it.

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Mutt can not delete mails Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-10-28 15:30 +0200
  Re: Mutt can not delete mails Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-28 15:40 +0200
    Re: Mutt can not delete mails Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-10-28 16:20 +0200
      Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-28 16:30 +0200
      Re: Mutt can not delete mails Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-28 16:40 +0200
        Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-28 16:50 +0200
          Re: Mutt can not delete mails Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-10-28 17:50 +0200
          Re: Mutt can not delete mails Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-10-28 17:50 +0200
            Re: Mutt can not delete mails Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-28 18:00 +0200
            Re: Mutt can not delete mails Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-10-28 18:20 +0200
              Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-04 16:40 +0100
      Re: Mutt can not delete mails Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-10-28 18:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-04 16:50 +0100
      Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-11 21:50 +0100
        Re: Mutt can not delete mails Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-11 22:00 +0100
          Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-12 03:10 +0100
          Re: Mutt can not delete mails Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-11-12 19:10 +0100
            Re: Mutt can not delete mails Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-12 19:50 +0100
              Re: Mutt can not delete mails Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-11-12 21:00 +0100
                Re: Mutt can not delete mails Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-12 21:10 +0100
                Re: Mutt can not delete mails David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-13 04:30 +0100

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