GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 215870
evolution can't lock a Unix mbox file (sgid issue)
Last modified: 2001-11-21 20:37:38 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: I've seen this discussed so I thought it had been reported, but the failure is still present in 0.99.2. So: Attempts to access my mail when configured to use the standard Unix mbox spool give "Error while 'Opening folder spool:/var/spool/mail/jbuck#INBOX': Could not lock '/var/spool/mail/jbuck' Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Configure mail account to use "Standard Unix mbox spools" 2. Try to read mail Actual Results: See message above Expected Results: Mail How often does this happen? Every time Additional Information: I can fix this problem by making /usr/sbin/camel-lock-helper sgid, with the group set to "mail". Please either implement this fix or solve the problem in some other way. What worries me is that someone told me he fixed it by setting the mail directory to 777; we can't lead people to weaken the security of their systems to get around bugs.
it's a packing problem, the makefiles build the file as sgid mail, but somehow the packages don't keep that information. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206335 ***