From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 23:40:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02428 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from winslow.net66.net (winslow.net66.net [206.139.80.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02423 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trout@net66.com) From: trout@net66.com Received: from trout (track84.grandcentral.net [208.214.226.136]) by winslow.net66.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id BAA09864 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:40:19 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990212014218.00f81ab0@net66.com> X-Sender: trout@net66.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:42:18 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: getting fetchmail to work Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hellohello: i have just gotten ppp to work, and i can browse the web and send email. i'm pretty happy about this. however, i cannot get my mail from my isp. i have set fetchmail to do this, and it appears to almost work. it looks like it is getting my mail, and then displays this message: ../var/mail permission denied MDA exiting nonzero status /var/mail is where i would like my messages sent. what does permission denied mean? as far as permissions go, everybody can rwx that directory. does this refer to something else? any ideas are appreciated ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- ...produces pitch-perfect musical tones when filled halfway with water and rubbed with moist finger. and remember folks, he's bathtub safe. ....sent from troutinthemilkyway, leader in nearly stable computing: NT and freeBSD ...and remember, net66 sucks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message