[lug] pop3 can't open mailbox

[jason at matchingmoms.com]

Thanks for the hints.  I deleted and recreated the user and that did the
trick.
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Stimits <stimits at idcomm.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [lug] pop3 can't open mailbox


> Hugh Brown wrote:
> >
> > It may be that you have a rogue pop process that has it open and won't
let
> > go.
>
> If that is the case then lsof could list what is using the file at the
> moment.
>
> >
> > 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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