Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 16:26:50 +1000 From: Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mailbox locked Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980401162650.00a57cc0@mailroom.dpac.tas.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980401094227.10452A-100000@odyssey.apana.org .au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331112053.5583O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Check the permissions on the mailbox. If the owner has changed, then you
will get this problem.
cheers,
Carey Nairn
At 09:43 1/04/98 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:
>
>> A POP locked mailbox? Check for a file /var/mail/${USERNAME}.pop.lock (or
>> .${USERNAME}.pop.lock).
>>
>> The campus Solaris POP server has this problem constantly. They finally
>> created a script called 'unpop' that kills this file.
>
>Hmmmm.... Nothing like this is present...
>
>Elm, and Pine both report mailbox is read-only...
>
>Regards,
>
>d.
>
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