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#! rnews 1763 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!news3.net99.net!news.cais.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!projtech!sgs From: sgs@projtech.com (Stan Sawyer) Subject: Re: Error message when retrieving mail with Eudora from BSDI server Message-ID: <1995Sep20.172514.160@projtech.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc Sender: daemon@projtech.com Nntp-Posting-Host: sarzak Organization: Project Technology, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <43pdqu$6ek@despina.neptune.com> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 17:25:14 GMT Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:963 comp.mail.sendmail:20489 comp.mail.misc:22251 Eudora uses POP to pick up e-mail. When you compile it, you can specify the temporary file location. (I believe that the default if /tmp.) If these users can't access this location (permissions, directory does not exist, etc.) they would get this message. Tom Techoueyres (tom@neptune.com) wrote: > I have a few customers that can't retrieve their mail from a BSDI server using > Eudora. They get the following message: > "ERR System error, can't open temporary files" > These users have nothing different from the other users. I even deleted them > and re-add them into the system, but I still get the error message. > Tom > tom@neptune.com -- Stan Sawyer (510) 845-1484 system administrator (510) 845-1075 FAX Project Technology sgs@projtech.com "purveyor of the Shlaer-Mellor Method" postmaster@projtech.com