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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Popper errors.
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:02:59 -0500 (CDT)
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> 	Recently we moved our mail from the var partition to a new
> one to accomodate our space needs.  After the move a great many of our
> users recieve the following error.
> 
> Aug 10 06:30:59 cronus popper[12883]: -ERR Unable to copy mail spool file
> to temp pop dropbox /var/mail/.username.pop
> 
> 	Any ideas?  The mail was moved with a tar preserving user info.

Wrong permissions on the new spool directory?  You did symlink /var/mail to
the new location, yes?  Your POP mail server looks like it's already
configured to use /var/mail for temp files, that's good.

(typically it is easier to mount a new disk as /var/mail than it is to
play games and dink with symlinks).

... JG