if no one has answered details about your MTA (aka qmail, sendmail, exim etc) and your pop daemon will be helpful
there may be a lockfile in addition to permissions problems Dean Shannon wrote: > Hi people, > > I nedd a little help. I am trying to get my pop3 server back up and > running here at home, after it decided to die today. However I am > getting a failing error on login. I have looked through my logs and am > getting > > Error opening or locking INBOX user= > > I am assuming this is a permissions problem but I am not sure exactly > what the permission need to be on the mail spool files. 777? 477? 4777? > > any help would be great. > > - Shannon > -- -- -- ME: http://dean.bong.com.au ICQ: 16867613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug