Re: pop3 problem

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Michael Roark wrote:

> ERR- maillock: '/var/spool/pop/<user>.pop'
> 
Is there such a file? If you telnet into a pop server, it will move the
mailbox /var/spool/mail/username to /var/spoll/pop/username.pop (and leave
a 0 Byte file in /var/spool/mail.
After quiting pop, it should be moved back.

You have to clean up a bit.

/var/spool/mail/username should hold the user's mail and there shouldn't
be a /var/spoll/pop/username.

Try again afterwards.

> Anything else to try? I can't check it with 'mail' from the prompt 
> either. I get /var/spool/mail/<user> permission denied.
> 
Here is what I got:

$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxrwsr-t   2 root     mail         1024 Nov 26 18:34 /var/spool/mail 

$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/martinb
-rw-------   1 martinb  mail       498272 Nov 26 22:55 
/var/spool/mail/martinb

$ ls -ld /var/spool/pop
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 Nov 26 18:34 /var/spool/pop      

Ciao,
	Martin


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