gnu emacs rmail and rs 6000's???

[Scott Holt]

In article <HUDGENS.91Feb11162844 at ds1.sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU> hudgens at sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes:
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>Anyone have any problems with this combination???
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>The following message appears when invoking  rmail in xemacs on a rs6000.
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>  movemail: permission denied for temporary file  "/usr/spool/mail/EJCICrx"
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well, not on the IBM, but I have had the exact same problem on other
systems. My solution was simply to change the permits on movemail -
make it setuid or setgid, or whatever is needed to give it write
permits in /usr/spool/mail. Under AIX, making it owned by bin.mail
and setgid should do the job.

- Scott
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