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Date:      Sun, 10 May 1998 11:37:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems YOU can have?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510113541.4464B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980509160509.19188C-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>

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On Sat, 9 May 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote:

> > > > You need to be a member of group `dialer' or root.
> > > 
> > > I was indeed running as root
> > 
> > Are you sure?  You wouldn't have gotten that message if you were running
> > as root.  
> 
> Very very sure. Don't worry about that. Look, I installed my printer, I
> could connect via cu or minicom, and suddenly all goes wrong. All these
> problems appear suddenly. It seems to me it's more a single bug than many
> things I forgot (even if I always forget sometin ;)). I think these
> problems appeared after I use my installation diskette by mistake to
> install some more distribution sets. Could that be the bug?

Possibly -- the perms could be screwed up.  Check the permissions on
/dev/cuaaX -- it should be owned by uucp:dialer.  The default perms is
600, I usually amend that to 660.

> Yes, I use POP, but I think this will only retrieve the _new_ email... 
> with no possibilities of saving incoming messages on the remote host... 
> (account on IRIX 5) Ain't there a way to interact _directly_ with the
> mailing system of the remote host (except than via a terminal)? 

It looks like you want IMAP instead.  Pine can handle this.  Ask the
remote sysadmin if IMAP is supported on the machine.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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