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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:58:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Kirchner <dpk@nwserv.com>
To:        Alex <bigzwirl@mail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Pine Read only Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002111556530.79387-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002111749440.389-100000@c441357-a.bdfrd1.tx.home.com>

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It's likely exactly what the error says; another process has your mailbox
open. Exit pine and do a 'ps -ux' to see all of your processes, and
'kill -15' the offending pine process.

-- 
David Kirchner - dpk@nwserv.com
Northwest Web Services - http://www.nwserv.com/

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Alex wrote:

> 
> I keep gettig this error message when ever I start Pine.
> 
> "Mailbox is open by another process. Access is read only"
> 
> And just like it says, I only have read only access and I can't erase my
> e-mail. Does it have to do with permitions some where? HELP!
> 
>    Thanks,
>      Alex
> 
> 
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