From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 14:08:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01369 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01201 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:07:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04190; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:07:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Alain G. Fabry" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP3 & IMAP problem In-Reply-To: <019701bde1c1$2c57c810$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > Following is an error I receive > > > Server Response - ERR Can't get lock. Try again or use IMAP instead > > When I use IMAP it just does not pull my mail through. > > When I telnet to the respective port, I do not have any problems login in. > Everything used to work fine, don't know what went wrong..... The permissions between your pop & imap servers and /var/mail are mucked up. Put everything in group 'mail' and setgid the pop and imap server binaries and you should be set. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message