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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.willamette.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help: pop Date: 05 Nov 1995 20:31:01 -0800 Organization: shot from guns! Lines: 18 Sender: nawaz921@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imu44ibbzu.fsf@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <b37cb$101d3b.257@news.csra.net> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: Bill Henderson's message of Fri, 03 Nov 1995 21:29:59 GMT In article <b37cb$101d3b.257@news.csra.net> Bill Henderson <wjh> writes: $ When a user tryies to send mail I get a error msg. $ $ unable to creat /var/mail/998787.msg $ $ can anyone help please provide more info about your situation. what operating system? what pop software? what are the permissions on /var/mail? usually people don't use pop to _send_ mail; they use it to _receive_ mail. it may help you to try a newsgroup in comp.mail.*; they are better suited for mail-related questions.