On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 01:24:59PM +0100, Padraig Finnerty mentioned:
> I had the same problem. I had a look at the source code, looking at the
> read-only variable, and saw that it tries to create a lock file in the mail
> directory and if it can't create the lock file, sets the mailbox to readonly.
> The problem was that (although it had write acccess to the mail file), it
> didn't have write access to the directory. A quick chmod on the directory
> solved it.
Nice one centurion...
Kate
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