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Article #266Re: another user is reading mail
From: Pironato Massimo
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:00
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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...
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