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

Odhiambo Washington wash at wananchi.com
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:38:50 +0300


* Leon Botes <leon@trusc.net> [20030225 20:22]: wrote:
> Okay so we make exim deliver to the mailspool with permissions as such:
> drwxrwx---   2 root  mail   512 Feb 25 18:59 .
> 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.
> 
> > mailspool_new_from_file: stat(/var/mail/leon): Permission denied

cd /var
chmod 1777 mail



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