[lug] pop3 can't open mailbox

[Hugh Brown]

It may be that you have a rogue pop process that has it open and won't let
go.

So kill any ipop3d processes that you own, cp your mail spool out of the
way.  Remove the old one, cp the new one back to what the old one was and
you should be good to go.

e.g.

generic at localhost% killall ipop3d
generic at localhost% cp /var/spool/mail/generic /var/spool/mail/generic.new
generic at localhost% rm /var/spool/mail/generic
generic at localhost% cp /var/spool/mail/generic.new /var/spool/mail/generic

Hugh


"jason at matchingmoms.com"
> 
> This seemed to happen all of a sudden . . . my POP3 sessions worked before.
> Any help appreciated!
> 
> generic ~$ telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK POP3 localhost v7.64 server ready
> USER generic
> +OK User name accepted, password please
> PASS generic
> -ERR Unable to open user's INBOX
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> generic ~$ ll /var/spool/mail
> total 328
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          539 Apr 10 02:04 BOGUS.friejas.6MTD
> -rw-------    1 daemon   daemon     313834 Apr 20 01:27 daemon
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 friejas  friejas       778 Apr 20 03:10 friejas
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 generic  users         670 Apr 20 03:18 generic
> -rw-------    1 root     root         2057 Apr 21 03:33 root
> generic ~$
> 
> 
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