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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