When a user tries to check their mail, qpopper first attempts to copy the mailbox to a temporary area from which the user then downloads. Where that file is depends on how you have configured qpopper, but can be /var/spool/mail/user or /home/.user.pop for example.
The error message you have is telling you that qpopper cannot copy mail to the temporary area due to a problem with permissions. You therefore need to a) find out where it is trying and b) make sure that the permissions are adequate there. I am sure that you are also going to get comments about using a more recent version than 2.53 as well... HTH Peter At 17:03 25/10/01 -0500, System Administrator Paknet Limited Islamabad wrote: >I have installed QPOP (version: 2.53) at on one of my servers running >sendmail 8.12.0 and facing following problem > >-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? >+OK Pop server at ns.paknet.com.pk signing off. >Connection closed by foreign host. > > >Can someone help me > > >TIA
