email "read only" inbox?

I'm getting this error when receiving an email:

sales@levi1.com R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery defer (30): Read-only file system: creating lock file hitching post /home/levi1/mail/levi1.com/sales/inbox.lock.host.4156cc9b.00007c9e (euid=32214 egid=12)
the permissions on that file is:
-rw-rw---- 1 levi1 levi1 0 Sep 26 02:41 inbox

if I try to change it to 0640 (or 755) it gives me:
chmod: changing permissions of `inbox': Read-only file system
(I am logged in SSH as root)

What do I do? (I guess the question is how do I change the permissions on a "read-only" file as 'root'?)

Thanx
Shneur

 

 

 

 

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