Ubuntu
thunderbird package

  1. Bug #96566
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 96566

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In , Fjodor (sune-molgaard) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2

I have seen a lot of reports about this on google. Furthermore, postfix is known to reset permissions on the spool dir.

Current mailutils movemail reverts to kernel locking in this event, so fixing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56671 will fix this too.

Alternatively, kernel locking could be implemented in the internal movemail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Verify no user writability on /var/mail/ or equivalent.
2. Set up a movemail account
3. Try to receive mails
Actual Results:
Error dialog

Expected Results:
Mails fetched

Known to be a problem on at least Ubuntu (several versions). Am bugging them too (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/96566)