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Your on the right lines - <br />
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I managed to work it out.<br />
It needed a temporary directory called /tmp/.pop and<br />
it couldn't create it.<br />

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Your on the right lines -

I managed to work it out.
It needed a temporary directory called /tmp/.pop and
it couldn't create it.


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If the server is heavily used check to make sure it cleans up its temporary files as the version I had before qpopper was very bad at this.<br />

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If the server is heavily used check to make sure it cleans up its temporary files as the version I had before qpopper was very bad at this.


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HELP! Why does pop3d running on RED-HAT 4.1 give me an error<br />
telling me that my the folder /var/spool/mail/xxxxx is already<br />
being read when my win95 client tries to get its mail across<br />
my ethernet. ANY WORKING ANSWER GETS AN A<br />
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pop3d is version 1.005e
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HELP! Why does pop3d running on RED-HAT 4.1 give me an error
telling me that my the folder /var/spool/mail/xxxxx is already
being read when my win95 client tries to get its mail across
my ethernet. ANY WORKING ANSWER GETS AN A

pop3d is version 1.005e

pop3d

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.