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From: Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com>
To: Administrador UdeM <root@guacari.udem.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: Problem with pop3 (popper)
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Administrador UdeM wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 04:17:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: Administrador UdeM <root@guacari.udem.edu.co>
> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Problem with pop3 (popper)
> 
> 
> Hi everyone, I'm obtain popper from ftp.freebsd.org/ports-217/qpopper...,
> nexrt, i active this but i obtain this message:
> 
> +OK QPOP (version 2.4b2) at guacari.udem.edu.co starting.
> <12914.879326175@guac
> ari.udem.edu.co>
> user dlagb330
> +OK Password required for dlagb330.
> pass <my password>
> -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
> +OK Pop server at guacari.udem.edu.co signing off.

 The POP drop used by poppper for this user has someone elses permissions. 
 Check your POP_DROP (constant defined in popper.h) to see if a popdrop
 exists for this user.  On my system, this is set to /var/tmp.
 
 If the pop drop has another users permissions, just delete the drop file. 
 popper will re-create it as necessary.
 
 The most likely cause of this problem is you deleted, then re-created this
 user's account.  When they were re-created, the permissions on the drop
 file were set to the users old uid.  They were now locked out.
 
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