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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To: Sean McGee <SMMCGEE@ncbc.ncbc.mn.org>
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Subject: Re: qpopper
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On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Sean McGee wrote:

> Anybody experienced a problem with qpopper v2.1.3-r5
> not being able to delete users mail from /var/mail ?
> 
> I can't even delete mail by telneting to port 110 and using
> the 'dele' command.  It gives me a message that it's deleted
> but it isn't.

  Re-compile with a different paths for the temp drop directory 
(something like /var/spool/pop), and chmod it 1777.

Tom