[tpop3d-discuss] Unable to open mailbox; it may be locked by another concurrent session

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:17:12PM +0200, Leon Botes wrote:
> Okay so we make exim deliver to the mailspool with permissions as such:
> drwxrwx---   2 root  mail   512 Feb 25 18:59 .

Um. leon doesn't have search rights in that directory.
You'll want to either make /var/mail o+rx or set
auth-pam-mail-group to be `mail'.

> drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel  512 Feb 18 12:33 ..
> -rw-rw----   1 leon  mail   412 Feb 25 18:59 leon
> Take note those that mailed me about lockfiles - there are none.
    [...]
> authcontext_new_user_pass: began session for `leon' with pam; uid 1000, gid 0
> fork_child: [5]leon(192.168.254.10): successfully authenticated with pam
> mailspool_new_from_file: stat(/var/mail/leon): Permission denied

I assume that UID 1000 == user `leon'?

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