From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jul 25 18:58:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24718 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (fullermd@shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24707 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@shell.futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25711; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 20:57:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980725205731.24406@futuresouth.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 20:57:31 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Jack Wenger Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Clients Email error message References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Jack Wenger on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:02:24PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:02:24PM -0500, Jack Wenger woke me up to tell me: > > When my users try to get their email, they (including me) get the > following message: > > ERR System Error, can't open temp file, do you own it? > > I get the same message from Eudora, Outlook, and Netscape. > > I have plenty of room on my HD's, I installed qpopper-2.52 about 3 weeks > ago, and haven't changed any of my other settings for mail. Pine works > great. So does Samba. What temp file is this talking about and what do I > need to do to fix it? Make sure that the directory it's trying to create temp files in (probably /var/mail) is world writable. Mode 1777, probably. > Please help, My boss and my users are breathing down my neck! Old Spice... ;) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message