Re: slrn not saving posts and replies where specified

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:40:36PM -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > I set my ~/.slrnrc file to save posts and replies as follows:
> >
> > set save_posts "/home/holtzm/mail/slrn_posts"
> > set save_replies "/home/holtzm/mail/slrn_replies"
> >
> > but it continues to save them in ~/News/My_Posts and ~/News/My_Replies.
> >
> > Any ideas why?
> 
> Each path must be both a file and writeable by the user running the slrn 
> process (which I'm guessing is "holtzm") according to:
> 
> http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual.html#toc6.88
> http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual.html#toc6.89
> 
> I'd check to make sure each is a file and is writeable by the user 
> running slrn.

The files have the same permissions (600) as all the other mbox files in
the mail directory.

> 
> Alternatively, do you have something later in your slrnrc that sets the 
> save_posts and save_replies settings to ~/News/My_Posts and 
> ~/News/My_Replies respectively?  Or perhaps a macro which sets them that 
> way?

Nothing

The plot thickens. Today, when I checked my email, two messages
from [email protected] showed up with Subject: Mail System Error -
Returned Mail. One for /home/holtzm/news/[email protected] and one for
/home/holtzm/news/[email protected]. When I checked my outbox file, sure
enough, there were messages sent with no subject or body To:
/home/holtzm/News/[email protected] and To:
/home/holtzm/News/[email protected]. Now I'm really confused. Why are
these messages being mailed and not simply saved to the respective
files? Previously I had set set save_directory
"/home/holtzm/mail/saved_slrn" and it works perfectly.
  

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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