On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > 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.
That is the same in my mailbox and the directory is empty. > Thanks, Sebastiaan
