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
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