Re: another user is reading mail

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From: System Admin
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00

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Look to see if there is a lock file in /var/tmp/.pop.  Delete it if there is.  As
root,

rm -f /var/tmp/.pop/[username]

where [username] is the users login name.

Hope this helps!

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.
>                                -Greg

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Date: 1998/07/20
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