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To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>,
        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
From: Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Mailbox locked
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Check the permissions on the mailbox.  If the owner has changed, then you
will get this problem.

cheers,
Carey Nairn

At 09:43 1/04/98 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:
>
>> A POP locked mailbox?  Check for a file /var/mail/${USERNAME}.pop.lock (or
>> .${USERNAME}.pop.lock).
>> 
>> The campus Solaris POP server has this problem constantly.  They finally
>> created a script called 'unpop' that kills this file.
>
>Hmmmm.... Nothing like this is present...
>
>Elm, and Pine both report mailbox is read-only...
>
>Regards,
>
>d.
>
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