"mail: Cannot open savefile"
If you receive this error, check the following:
1. Create a directory called /var/mail/:saved
(note the colon)
owned by user root, group mail with 775 permissions.
2. Make sure /bin/mail has
the SGID
bit set. 2511 permissions are acceptable.
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