Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:29:38 -0400 From: "Bradley Dunn" <dunn@harborcom.net> To: "Raymond Richmond" <richmond@cronus.oanet.com>, <bsdi-users@bsdi.com> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Popper errors. Message-ID: <199608141737.NAA10403@ns2.harborcom.net>
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What are your permissions on /var/mail? Popper runs as the user retrieving mail, and needs sufficient permissions to write a temporary file. What I do is use Qualcomm's popper, and before compilation I specified the temp. dir. to be /var/mail/poptemp and made that directory mode 1777. Sure it's another directory that is world writable, but I figure your /var partition should be designed to handle big fluctuations in size. I suppose you could also just specify /tmp as the place to make the temporary file. Bradley Dunn Harbor Communications ---------- > From: Raymond Richmond <richmond@cronus.oanet.com> > To: bsdi-users@bsdi.com > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Popper errors. > Date: Wednesday, August 14, 1996 12:26 PM > > Recently we moved our mail from the var partition to a new > one to accomodate our space needs. After the move a great many of our > users recieve the following error. > > Aug 10 06:30:59 cronus popper[12883]: -ERR Unable to copy mail spool file > to temp pop dropbox /var/mail/.username.pop > > Any ideas? The mail was moved with a tar preserving user info. > > -- > > __^__ __^__ > ( ___ )------------------------------------------------------( ___ ) > | / |---Raymond Richmond---Question Man-------(403)430-0811 -| \ | > | / |---------OA Internet----------Technical Support---------| \ | > |_*_| |_*_| > (_____)----------------richmond@oanet.com--------------------(_____) > >
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