On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:39:20PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I have a problem with reading mail with qpopper. Reading mail with pine > work fine. I installed this package, but when logging in on the pop3 port, > qpopper gives some errors: > > $ telnet localhost 110 > +OK QPOP .... > user sebas > pass haha > -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? > +OK Pop server at onix.dorpsnet.nl signing off.
what does /var/spool/pop look like, its permissions should be: drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Feb 22 2000 /var/spool/pop also check to see if there is anything bogus in there, qpopper makes a temporary copy of your mailspool here, i think this is the temp file its referring to. > I have changed my user protection bits to rwxrwxrwx (just to be sure) and change them back, thats evil. > I own my own mailbox (i.e. sebas is owned by sebas and group is mail). The > maildirectory is set with chmod 1777. > > Does anyone know how I can read mail via pop3? > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastiaan > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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