Mail.app doesn't like Unix (/var/mail) accounts anymore

[marmoset]

I've got Sendmail working on 10.0 now. I copied my m4 files
from my PB installation and the standard things (sending mail,
accepting incoming mail) are working great.

I think the problem I'm having is a Mail.app problem
and not a sendmail problem. When I create a
"UNIX mail" account in Mail.app, it seems to
create it just fine. Unfortunately, nothing I do
can seem to get it to take the incoming mail
from /var/mail/{username} and display it.

Does anyone else have this working? I got
really spoiled in the PB days with being able
to handle all my incoming and outgoing mail
locally.

 

[scruffy]

local mail did not work in PB for me in Mail.app until I did "chmod 755 /var/mail" as root.

This allows Mail.app to lock the /var/mail/$user file so that no two programs can write to it at once, and clobber each other. Pine was willing to accept the risk, but gave angry warning messages.

I haven't got GM installed yet, so I can't try this out...

 

[marmoset]

Originally posted by scruffy
local mail did not work in PB for me in Mail.app until I did "chmod 755 /var/mail" as root.

This allows Mail.app to lock the /var/mail/$user file so that no two programs can write to it at once, and clobber each other. Pine was willing to accept the risk, but gave angry warning messages.

I haven't got GM installed yet, so I can't try this out...

Hmm... I've tried setting mode on /var/mail to 755 and even
777, to no avail.

I have a feeling I'm missing something really obvious, but
so far no joy.

 

[scruffy]

that was "chmod 1777 /var/mail"

the one is the 'sticky bit' - nobody can touch a file that doesn't belong to them (even if group permissions say they can)