From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 15:22: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ABE37B404 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:22:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from walt99 (unverified [216.182.20.107]) by gate.tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with SMTP id for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:21:54 -0500 Message-ID: X-Sender: walterbetanc@popd.betan.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:21:44 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Walter Betancourt Subject: mail problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hope someone can explain -- using freebsd 4.0, Added two new user accounts, setup as usual, trying to access either user email got "....cannot open temporary file,.... do you own it?" did some google searches and found several with same problem that had been advised to erase the temp file .UserName.pop in /var/mail/ in fact they advised to erase all temp files. Looking at /var/mail I found several .UserName.pop files but only one for the new users. so erased the one I found, and just for good measure, erased .MyName.pop file. Now I was NOT able to access the new email accounts or MyName email account. Losing ground rapidly.. Went back and used "touch" to create the new accounts and MyName .UserName.pop files, chown to UserName, chgrp to "mail" and chmod each to 600. All email accounts now work normally,..... and I dont know why. Anyone help ? thanks Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message