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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:37:21 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: popper...
Message-ID:  <19980831163721.G606@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830154756.249A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>; from Lanny Baron on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:06:34AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830154756.249A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>

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On Monday, 31 August 1998 at  0:06:34 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
>    I have just set up my pop3 mailer and when I tried to get mail from
> another box I just get password failure. When logged into this box I get
> the  following message.
>
> beef# passwAug 30 15:46:46 beef popper[244]: Unable to open temporary
> maildrop '
> /var/mail/.beef.pop': Permission denied (13)
>
> I have not changed any passwd's. Can someone please tell me how to fix
> this?

It's trying to open or create a file in /var/mail.  If it's opening
it, the permissions of the file are inappropriate.  If it's creating
it, the permissions of the directory are inappropriate.  You can see
both with 'ls -al /var/mail'.

Greg
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