On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Marc Weeber wrote: > Here, at my work I have to retrieve my mail from a novell server. I > can do this by `fetchpop' or `popclient'. This is all right, but when > I'm usingthe mailagent Pine as an ordinary user, I only can read the > inbox file, but I cannot alter it: pine can't get the mailbox lock > from the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem.
Your inbox must have the following permissions/owner/group: -rw-rw---- 1 vadik mail 105980 Sep 12 22:16 /usr/spool/mail/vadik Check that. > If someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very > pleased. Hope it helps. > thanks in advance, My pleasure. > Marc Vadik. ++ _ Vadik V. (_` [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arbornet.org/~vadik/ Vygonets (_.lf For PGP public key, email me with sibject "get pgp" Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.