From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 15:41:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA03181 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA03161 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA13069 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:12:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.8.3/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id VAA14663 ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:10:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (iaka) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960928(mailhost)) at Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:10:32 +0100 Received: by iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jf930126) at Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:10:31 +0100 From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) Message-Id: <199611262010.AA00360@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Send Mail (XTND XMIT) To: frank@mercynet.edu (Frank Arauz) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:10:30 +0100 (GMT+0100) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961126123632.1cb77b58@mercynet.edu> from Frank Arauz at "Nov 26, 96 12:39:29 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Frank Arauz wrote / a ecrit: > > Hi guys, I am sorry to bother you again. > > My question before was about using passwords to send mail. > > I made some changes to Eudora.ini file, and now when I click > on Send, it asks me to enter a password for my account but: > > After I enter the password and press enter, I got the message > > There has been an error transferring your mail, > I said XTND XMIT > > and the POP server [arauzf@mercynet.edu] said > ERR unable to create temporary message "/var" > Normally the pop server creates temporary copies of the mailboxes in the spool directory. I think they're called .pop.joe for user "joe". It seems that instead of creating /var/mail/.pop.joe, your pop daemon is attempting to create /var ! Something must be really bad in its configuration. Don't tell me it works from other pop clients, does it ? Did you build it from sources ? _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]