On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:04:04 +0200 (SAT)
> From: John Ostrowick <jon@macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za>
> To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: popper question
> 
> hi folks. has anyone here got popper working (for eudora clients?)
> 
> this is the session i recorded for anyone who might know what's going
> wrong:
> 
> macaroni:/users/jon/> telnet macaroni 110
> Trying 146.141.26.180...
> Connected to macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK QPOP (version 2.2) at macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za starting.  
> user jon
> +OK Password required for jon.
> pass ********
> -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
> +OK Pop server at macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za signing off.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> macaroni:/users/jon/> 
> 
> i checked the access privileges but all the directories and files
> involved are at their default correct ownerships that work with pine and
> others. As i understand it from the man page, popper acts as the user who
> logs in, so it's not surprising that it's got access priv problems, but i
> can't see where theu're coming in. All the files it needs to see have the
> right privs (or so i think). 

Looks like the temp file it stores (presumably in /tmp) has wrong access
privs. Try removing it and see if that helps.

Good luck,

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