You have to write a script and put it on crontab to run regularly...
My script is below...
#!/bin/sh
rm /usr/tmp/.pop/.[A-Za-z0-9]* 2> /dev/null
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jim Roland wrote:
> I have a problem from time to time with users who check their email
> (usually with Outlook or it's derivatives, but it also happens with
> Pegasus) and find that they can't get in. I check their acct by
> telnetting to port 110 and find an error "mail being read already", and it
> turns out to be a "flag" file in /var/tmp/.pop directory. If I let it sit
> for days, it's still there and there is no more active POP3 connection to
> the server. I'm using the standard POP3 daemon (in.pop3 that comes with
> inetd) that ships with Slackware. How do I prevent this? There appears
> to be no discernable pattern and the file does not "timeout" and delete
> itself.
>
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