When is folder read-only?

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From: Sami-Jaakko Tikka
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 09:31

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I do 

(setq mail-archive-file-name "~/Mail/OUTGOING"
	mail-default-reply-to "Sami.Tikka@hut.fi")

in my .emacs.  Now and then I would like to visit folder OUTGOING to
do some deleting of messages that are not any more relevant.
Sometimes I would like to save mails from OUTGOING to other folders
too. 

When I try to do one of those things I get a beep and a message in
echo area saying "buffer OUTGOING is read-only".  However the file
OUTGOING has read-write-permissions.

What is the variable or the method that VM uses to determine is the
user allowed to do changes to the folder?  I tried searching through
the manual but maybe I missed something...
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Subject: When is folder read-only?
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