[Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] Could not lock /var/mail<user>:: why??

Eugeniu Plamadeala eugen.plamadeala at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 18:49:32 BST 2007


On Saturday 29 September 2007 18:50:43 Gary Kline wrote:
> 	After trying to copy the settings from my 2005 Ubuntu computer
> 	to the BSD server, KMail still errors out with:
>
> 	"Transmission failed: Could not lock /var/mail/kline."
>
> 	Do any of you guy know what I need to do to resolve this?

KMail 1.9.7 has several locking methods when it comes to local mailboxes.
Try all of them: I personally got the same "Could not lock ..." with every 
option except FCNTL.

-- 
Best regards,
  Eugeniu

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