neomutt via mutt-wizard: admin account works, regular user account not working

[MarkLeakos]

I am on Fedora 37 on a 2015 macbook pro (macos wiped - linux only); I have an admin user (markleakos) and a regular user (doc_mac). I have a gmail account which works great on the admin account but when I run this from the regular user I get an error: ~]$ mw -y markleakos@gmail.com

C: 0/1  B: 0/0  F: +0/0 *0/0 #0/0  N: +0/0 *0/0 #0/0
Maildir error: cannot open store '/home/markleakos/.local/share/mail/markleakos@gmail.com/'
C: 1/1  B: 0/0  F: +0/0 *0/0 #0/0  N: +0/0 *0/0 #0/0
Error: Cannot open database at /home/markleakos/.local/share/mail: Permission denied.

I think that mutt-wizard should be looking in /home/doc_mac/.local/share/mail (which does exist) . I installed mutt-wizard from the admin account but I would like to be able to use it from a regular user account. How do I correct this?

Thanks, Mark

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[MarkLeakos]

Thanks for your reply.

I don't want to use mutt on my admin account but since the install required 'sudo' I had to do it that way I thought.

Indeed, I would like to never have to go into my admin account. But some internal workings of mutt-wizard is looking into that path /home/markleakos/.local/share/mail instead of /home/doc_mac/.local/share/mail I was hoping to change that behavior if possible.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 21:02 Junicchi @.***> wrote:

the files you created on root will not have write permission to standard users by default. Manually giving this permission to your standard user by performing: sudo chown -R doc_mac:doc_mac /home/markleakos/.local/share/mail should fix those permission denied errors.

But why would you use mutt-wizard or any other daily program in root at the first place? It doesn't sound secure and practical. Personally if i'd be regularly switching between my root and standard account I would setup the mutt-wizard in my standard account and update my mailbox from root as my standard alt account, for example from root: su doc_mac -c "mw -y @.***"

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[KebabLord]

personally i would create a clean setup if accidentally installed the script as root. In order to have a clean install, i would first delete my mailboxes one by one using mw -d mail@address.com then on repo folder i would perform a sudo make uninstall then rm -rf ~/.password-store /home/markleakos/.local/share/mail ~/.config/mutt

after cleaning everything now it's good to make install on repo folder.

[MarkLeakos]

Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate it.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 15:28 Junicchi @.***> wrote:

personally i would create a clean setup if accidentally installed the script as root. In order to have a clean install, i would first delete my mailboxes one by one using mw -d @.*** then on repo folder i would perform a sudo make uninstall then rm -rf ~/.password-store /home/markleakos/.local/share/mail ~/.config/mutt

after cleaning everything now it's good to make install on repo folder.

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