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Re: [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]



In your email to me, Paul Miller, you wrote:
> 
> Ted Okada wrote:
> > 
> > Hi..  After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting
> > 
> > [Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]
> > 
> > in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660
> > and is readable except for the lock... POP3 mail is also not allowing
> > mail to be pulled from the machine... is this a sendmail.cf issue?
> > I'm
> > coming up clueless..
> 
> If you ever figure it out, let me know.  I need a way to disable mail to
> some users.

What are the permissions on /var/spool/mail? Mine is set at:

drwxrwsr-t   2 root     mail         1024 Aug  2 18:58 mail

Tim

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