🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:48:05 -0500, Greg Thorne <gthorne@reasors.com>
wrote:

>Pironato Massimo wrote:
>> 
>> Greg Thorne wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello.
>> >   I don't know how often this error comes up, but it seems that there's quite a
>> > new messages about it, and no real solution.  Anyway, We are getting the error
>> > "another user is reading mail /usr/spool/<username>."  We are running in.pop3d.
>> > It is only this user, and we deleted him and recreated him and still got the
>> > same message.  His mail file has the right permissions (user:<username>,
>> > group:mail).  Any help would be apprecieated.
>> >
>> 
>> Sorry for my english...:
>> 
>> Pop3d is affected by this problem.
>> It appears when you try to pop your mail while you are
>> also running fetchmail in the same mailbox.
>> (It's so for me).
>> 
>> In fact, a file /var/tmp/.pop/<uzer> remains even if
>> no process is running.
>> I've resolved this problem
>> with crontab :
>> * * * * * rm /var/tmp/.pop/*
>> 
>> A system administrator tell's me to substitute in.pop3d with qmail,
>> but i'm lazy...
>
>Hey, I'm not worried about your English, it seems as good as mine.  You did fix
>my problem, though.  Thanks a lot.  I didn't realize that I posted to
>it.comp.linux, so I thank you for answering, even though I didn't post in
>Italian.
>                                  
>Thanks again.
>                                 -Greg
Hello, after much research I've found a solution.  Its happened to me
too on three different slackware machines.. and this fix worked on all
3. many other ppl have had the same problem..

basically, there is a call being made from someware in the "pop3d". I
forget what it was, and were, but its requesting to use /var/tmp/.pop/
SO, if you don't have ".pop" <--- this is a directory then 
1. create it.
2. chmod a+rw .pop

this should help..
cheers.
	Vision..