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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:22:43 +0100
From:      Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org>
To:        "Thomas Krause, CI" <freebsd@chef-ingenieur.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with tpop3d 1.3.4 and mailbox mode
Message-ID:  <20010909112243.A82534@shagged.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010909111317.00a8e248@mta.webmatic.de>; from freebsd@chef-ingenieur.de on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:22:54AM %2B0200
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20010909111317.00a8e248@mta.webmatic.de>

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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:22:54AM +0200, Thomas Krause, CI wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed tpop3d from the ports. I'm using standard mailboxes in
> /var/mail. With tpop3d I'm unable to retrieve mails. In maillog I have:
> 
> Sep  8 18:12:15 tom-test tpop3d[5993]: dotfile_lock(/var/mail/tom): unable to
> create hitching post: Permission denied
> 
> I belive this is a problem with permission of /var/mail. It's working when
> setting /var/mail to 777, standard is 775.

Are you running tpop3d as root, or in the group that has write access to 
/var/mail ? It's trying to create a $user.lock file in /var/mail and failing 
because it doesn't have permission to do so.

-- 
Chris Elsworth  -  Software & Systems Developer  /  Systems Administrator 

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