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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help: pop
Date: 4 Nov 1995 06:48:53 GMT
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In article <b37cb$101d3b.257@news.csra.net>, wjh says...
>
>When a user tryies to send mail I get a error msg.
>
>unable to creat /var/mail/998787.msg
>
>can anyone help

  /usr/sbin/sendmail is probably not set setuid to root.  
Use chmod to change it.

Tom