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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] mail mysteriously read-only
On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 08:25:38AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I moved my /var/mail partition to a different disk drive
> by:
>     creating a new ext4 partition
>     mounting it as /newvarmail
>     copying the contents of the old /var/mail partition to it
>     unmounting both the old and new mail partitions
>     updating the /etc/fstab entry by
>         chainging the partition name
>     changing the file system to ext4 from ext3
>     mounting the new one as /ver/mail
> Everything seems to work smoothly except for one thing:
>     When I read a new message in mutt, the 'N' indicaating it is new does not disappear after reading it.

>
> (And one time only, mutt mentioned that the mail file was read-only.)


It's when I try to delete a message that it coplains about the mail file being read-only.
But it's clear that *something* can write it, because new mail still arrives.

>
> ls tells me
> -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102495117 May 20 08:06 hendrik
> and for the old var/mail, it tells me
> -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102369929 May 20 07:34 /oldvarmail/hendrik
>
> much the same except that I seem to have received some more mail.
>
> -- hendrik