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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2000 03:39:14 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        cbarnett@netcabtec.com (Chuck Barnett)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: popper
Message-ID:  <38a4d55b.451346191@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAILE5377B025A5AD311914900A0C9EBC22901D6A1@MUNNIN>
References:  <MAILE5377B025A5AD311914900A0C9EBC22901D6A1@MUNNIN>

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On 11 Feb 2000 17:50:01 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>hello, I have popper up and running I can telnet to port 110 and it
>responds.  but when I try to log in I get this error:
>"can't open temporary file, do you own it? "
>Anyone have a clue?

e.g. normally you see

staff# cd /var/mail
staff# ls -l .mdtancsa.pop 
-rw-------  1 mdtancsa  mail  0 Feb 11 19:12 .mdtancsa.pop
staff# ls -l mdtancsa
-rw-------  1 mdtancsa  netdial  0 Feb 11 22:36 mdtancsa

In your case, it would be

staff# cd /var/mail
staff# ls -l .mdtancsa.pop 
-rw-------  1 someotherguy  mail  0 Feb 11 19:12 .mdtancsa.pop
staff# ls -l mdtancsa
-rw-------  1 mdtancsa  netdial  0 Feb 11 22:36 mdtancsa

i.e. the .pop file exists, but is owned by someone other than the primary
mailbox owner.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers 
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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