Sylpheed problem

Forum: Apps
Topic: Sylpheed problem
started by: dmizzel

Posted by dmizzel on May 09 2005,23:08

i set up Sylpheed to get my pop3 email. I click 'get' to retrieve my email, it connects and starts receiving email, then stops and says

"Can't write file!"

I assume it has something to do with chmod or chown?? but im not sure what to change. I don't want to be stupid and run Sylpheed as root, so what am I missing?

Posted by adraker on May 10 2005,07:32

Maybe /home/dsl/Mail ownership/perms.
Should be dsl and staff.

Posted by dmizzel on May 10 2005,20:49

/home/dsl/Mail didn't even exist. I created it with ownership/perms dsl and staff. Still the same problem. Thanx for response.

I know there is something simple and stupid that I'm doing, I obviously just don't know what it is and it's very frustrating :angry:

Someone Please help!

Posted by adraker on May 10 2005,23:13

Should have been created after your initial account setup.
I think....if it wasn't there already...
The only thing I can think of is to do a clean boot with no
restore/backup files involved, set up your Sylpheed new
account details, make sure /home/dsl/.sylpheed and /home/dsl/Mail
are in your filetool.lst, and that nothing else in your backup
is affecting these, and generate a new backup file.
Thats assuming you are using one.
I don't know if you're live/frugal/HD/persistent etc.
When setting up your new account preferences, in the advanced tab,
set up what folders your messages go into.
Hope this helps!

Posted by dmizzel on May 14 2005,08:42

Thanx, it did help. I'm back to normal.

My problem occured when I tried to transfer my sylpheed account info from one computers backup.tar.gz to another computers backup.tar.gz. I don't remember exactly how I tried to do it. I think I tried to only copy the 'accountrc' file from home/dsl/.sylpheed directory (which I wouldn't recommend).