Re: smail POP error
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Luis Francisco Gonzalez
<luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: smail POP error
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>>> I can't connect using POP to retrieve my mail at a remote server I
>maintain.
>>> Recently, the hard drive filled up, and a new one was installed. Now I
>>> can't retrieve my mail. A copy of the log follows.
>>Just a blind guess. What are the /tmp permissions?
>>This is how it is in mine:
>>drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 2048 oct 24 13:26 tmp
>>
>>I seem to recall that there is something special that allows everybody to
>>create files in that directory but only delete those that belong to the
>>current user. Check the policy manual.
>>
>>Luis.
>
>drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Oct 24 06:47 /tmp/
>drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Oct 24 06:42 /var/tmp/
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>Any more ideas? I am stumped on this one. The command I used to copy the
>hard drives was: "(cd nmnt;tar c *)|(cd mnt;tar xv)" Was there anything
>wrong with that?
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I solved this by uninstalling and reinstalling QPOPPER. However, this still
doesn't explain why it happened in the first place.
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