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Re: Mutt can not delete mails

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Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2021, 21:53:53 CET schrieb Greg Wooledge:


No, it is not /tmp, but /var/tmp. See here from the output:


[2021-11-11 22:08:33] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.
[2021-11-11 22:08:33] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.
[2021-11-11 22:08:36] mutt_index_menu[807]: Got op 167
[2021-11-11 22:08:39] /var/mail/myusername wird geschrieben …
[2021-11-11 22:08:39] Sortiere Postfach …
[2021-11-11 22:08:39] ../../mbox.c:895: mutt_mktemp returns "/var/tmp/mutt-
protheus2-1000-47311-14301765248385272183".
[2021-11-11 22:08:39] Temporärdatei konnte nicht erzeugt werden!
[2021-11-11 22:08:44] Sortiere Postfach …
[2021-11-11 22:08:44] /var/mail/myusername kann nicht geschrieben werden!
[2021-11-11 22:08:44] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.
[2021-11-11 22:08:44] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.
[2021-11-11 22:08:44] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed.

Sorry, it is in German and I changed my username to "myusername".

Note, that /var is on its own partition. The rights settings are:

ls -la / | grep var
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096  2. Sep 18:37 var

ls -la /var/ | grep tmp
drwxr-xr-x  26 root root  12288 12. Nov 18:53 tmp

So I do not have the right, to create files in /var/tmp. I wonder, if either 
the mutt settings are wrong, or the settings of /var and /var/tmp.

Best regards

Hans

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 02:48:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > There should be some indication at this point of why it can't
> > delete your emails. The reason you see the filename
> > /home/username/.mutt-cache/scratchpad/mutt-hostname… above is
> > that I have set tmpdir="$HOME/.mutt-cache/scratchpad" in my
> > muttrc file. I use that, rather than /tmp, because it is encrypted
> > along with all of /home. But it means I have to clean it occasionally.
> 
> If mutt normally writes these "temporary files" in /tmp (whaaat, how do
> you guarantee an atomic move from /tmp to /var/mail??) then the OP
> should at least check the perms and ownership of /tmp.
> 
> ls -ld /tmp
> 
> We've seen *so* many people with messed-up /tmp ownership lately.

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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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