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Re: Mutt can not delete mails

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Mutt can not delete mails
Date	2021-11-12 19:50 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:06:26PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> No, it is not /tmp, but /var/tmp. See here from the output:

> [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!

> 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

Just use ls -ld /var

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

Use ls -ld /var/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.

These permissions are wrong for /var/tmp.  This is your problem.

unicorn:~$ ls -ld /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Nov 12 13:47 /var/tmp

To fix it, run this as root:  chmod 1777 /var/tmp

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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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