From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 07:05:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23491 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 07:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.tig.com.au (stress.tig.com.au [209.76.102.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23486 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 07:05:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sasha@earthling.net) Received: from p2-max28.syd.ihug.com.au (p2-max28.syd.ihug.com.au [209.233.56.130]) by smtp1.tig.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA12095; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:05:01 +1100 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:02:50 +1100 (EST) From: Sasha Case X-Sender: sasha@localhost Reply-To: sasha@earthling.net To: trout@net66.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting fetchmail to work In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990212014218.00f81ab0@net66.com> Message-ID: X-Mailer: Beefmail v0.0(SGC) for FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 trout@net66.com wrote: > ../var/mail permission denied MDA exiting nonzero status > > /var/mail is where i would like my messages sent. what does permission > denied mean? as far as permissions go, everybody can rwx that directory. > does this refer to something else? > > any ideas are appreciated Could you paste your .fetchmailrc file? Make sure you take out the passwords first, of course. /r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message