From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 00:10:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA22120 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com (root@copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA22115 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com (khetan@copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by copernicus.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA21651; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:09:56 +0200 (SAT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:09:56 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Dan Wolfe <74602.1641@CompuServe.COM> cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: POP3 Mail Error In-Reply-To: <960821213836_74602.1641_EHH147-2@CompuServe.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 21 Aug 1996, Dan Wolfe wrote: > I tried deleting the lock file .dwolfe.pop from /var/mail and this still did not > correct the problem. Any ideas? Do you have enough free disk space on that partition ? To check, just do a df -k . in that directory. If the space is less than the mailbox you're trying to pop off, you'll have problems. Also what are the permissions of the mailbox and the mail directory ? --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan ] UUNet Internet Africa [ 0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com ] Get rid of Telkom.... [ http://www.ispa.org.za ] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org ] Any opinions stated in this message are personal. UIA's official policy may not be reflected in this message.