elm - always claims that new mails arrive

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Problem: elm does not want to start, and claims permanently that a new mail just arrived. One should try it later on once more.

Solution: The permissions for the directory /var/spool/mail and/or for elm are wrongly set up. elm must be able to write in /var/spool/mail.

The permissions should be set up in this manner:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail /usr/bin/elm
drwxrwxr-x 4 root mail /var/spool/mail

As root, enter the following:

chown root:mail /usr/bin/elm
chmod 2755 /usr/bin/elm

chown root:mail /var/spool/mail
chmod 775 /var/spool/mail


Keywords: ELM

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