Making spool directory 01777 in order to get email

[Peter N. Spotts]

Folks,

How do I go about making my /var/spool/mail directory mode 01777? For 
some reason, after downloading email this morning, I started getting an 
error message with Thunderbird saying it couldn't create a ~.lock file 
in /var/spool/mail, and that on some systems movemail wanted the 
directory in mode 01777. This looks like too many digits for chmod to 
handle, so I suspect something else is required. And, if anyone has any 
insights, why would this change on a digital whim? I was able to 
download my first morning batch of email with no trouble...

With best regards,

Pete
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