I am trying to acces my mail box using the Mail::Box module but get the following error message:

ERROR: Cannot get a lock on Mail::Box::Mbox folder /var/mail/username.
WARNING: Folder does not exist, failed opening mbox folder /var/mail/username.

I am just starting this script and only have the following lines of code so far: 
use Mail::Box::Manager;
my $mgr    = Mail::Box::Manager->new;
my $folder = $mgr->open(folder => $ENV{MAIL});

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How can I get a lock on the file?

Is there a way to get Mail::MboxParser to delete mail?   I can read the mail with that but I would like to delete the mail once I am done with it.

Thanks in advance.

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