93096 - can't read local mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, defect)

Description

[billw]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdksmp i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060713

following the instructions I found elsewhere on mozilla.org, i created a pop3
account and then modified it within prefs.js to use movemail. When I click on
'Get Msg', the following line is printed to stderr:

 Exception : In mail commands

 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a movemail account
2.get messages from that account
3.

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Smoketest blocker.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

not a smoketest, not a blocker. 

Comment 3

[jlarsen]

Just curious, what is movemail?

Comment 4

[Adam D. Moss]

<qa_ignore>
It's the mechanism by which mozilla slurps
local unix mail spools, ie /var/spool/mail/username
</qa_ignore>

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Marking these all WORKSFORME sorry about lack of response but were very
overloaded here. Only reopen the bug if you can reproduce with the following steps:

1) Download the latest nightly (or 0.9.6 which should be out RSN)
2) Create a new profile
3) test the bug again

If it still occurs go ahead and reopen the bug. Again sorry about no response
were quite overloaded here and understaffed.

Comment 6

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

reopening.

Comment 7

[Joachim Herb]

Might be, this is a duplicate of bug 56671.

Have you tried changing the permission of /var/spool/mail to 1777?

Comment 8

[Adam D. Moss]

-> movemail owner

Comment 9

[Philip K. Warren]

This should have been working for a while. If not, please open a new bug.