-current akpop3d current thunderbird client, back a patch from current
this box has two users: root and astar. astar is just a normal user. now akpop3d is a deamon and otherwise takes the defaults, so the maildrops are in /var/mail. suppose I try to get some astar messages from the maildrop and stroke thunderbird getmail. Seems to work. But stroke getmail again and a message that the password was not whatever because could not get a lock on the maildrop. Looking at the directory, the first stroke we got a astar-lock file and it never disappeared, so maybe there is a problem here. This file is astar/_akpop3d and group has only r permissions. Now I will be trying some other pop3 server , but here is the counter-argument. I have had other permission problems recently, so it may not exactly be this pop3 server oh, root mailbox seems to work fine. thunderbird is running under the astar user.