[P1] Mail

[Joe Jones]

The trouble is that mail messages are kept in a mailbox, which is a 
file in your library called "accountname.mbox" so the message itself 
can't have different permissions than the file - if you can access and 
delete other mail in that account then the permissions for the mailbox 
itself are fine.

What I would suspect is that the mbox file is corrupt and it's causing 
problems deleting the particular message.

Try all the usual suspects - repair your disk permissions and do a disk 
first aid check from the boot CD on the master volume. Also let 
DiskWarrior have a go at it if you have it.

Joe

On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 10:39 Europe/London, Richard McKay wrote:

> Pat D. Stephens wrote the following:
>
>> I'm having an odd problem with a piece of mail in my Mail inbox.  I
>> can't open it or delete it.  Can anyone tell me what's happening and
>> how to delete it?
>
> I might be wrong but I think this is due to a permissions problem (in 
> this
> case with that particular message). if you try to delete an item you 
> are not
> the owner of or if it is misinterpreted by the system as belonging to
> someone else the system will not let you delete it (as you do not own
> it)...next time you have this problem check the ownership of the item 
> you
> are trying to delete...as force deleting worked it would seem to 
> confirm
> this...
>
> HTH,
>
> Richard
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