Thank you SO much Mark! It works like a charm now!

I would never have guessed that, either! Thanks!

Josh

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Mark Andres wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Here is how to fix it.  As root, do this command:
> 
>   chmod 1777 /var/mail
> 
> This should set the permission like this
> 
>   drwxrwxrwt   2 root   wheel      512 Jul 15 12:03 mail
> 
> You should not have to do this, but for some reason things do not work
> properly in NetBSD.  On our BSDI servers, popper works fine with the mail
> directory set at
> 
>   drwxrwxr-x   2 root   mail    512 Jul 14 03:11 mail
> 
> Oh, and yes, I tried making popper group "mail", making /var/mail also
> group "mail" and setting popper to set-group-id.  It still doesn't work
> that way.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Josh Hope wrote:
> 
> > I got popper compiled and successfully installed, but I'm having a little
> > problem...
> > 
> > Whenever I try using it, I get the following message:
> > 
> > [otaku@otaku.users.netset.com]% telnet localhost pop3
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.netset.com.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > +OK QPOP (version 2.3) at otaku.users.netset.com starting.
> > user otaku
> > +OK Password required for otaku.
> > pass mypasshere
> > -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
> > +OK Pop server at otaku.users.netset.com signing off.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > 
> > What could be causing this? WHere is the temp file at? I tried making
> > /usr/spool/mail...but that didn't help the problem. I went through all the
> > documentation that came with popper, to no avail...
> > 
> > I really must get this fixed...if anyone knows the answer out there, I'll
> > be very happy to hear it :)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Josh
> > 
> > 
> 
> Mark Andres   E-mail: mark@ratbert.aisol.net
>     Running NetBSD, 100% Microsoft Free!
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> 
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