Re: 'flock' error with 0.9.3

[Paul Theo Gonciari <gptheo yahoo com>]

this happens on my machine when the file in which the mail is spooled is empty (i.e. /home/matt/mail/inbox )

move one message there and it should work (at least it did for me)

theo 




On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:59:46 Matt McManus wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have successfully been using 0.9.2 on a Redhat 6.2 (intel) machine to
>check pop3 mail. Today I installed 0.9.3 and now get the following error
>message "Timeout exceeded while attempting to flock lock" and "Error:
>Couldn't lock /home/matt/mail/inbox" and "Cannot open the temporary
>mailbox to spool POP3 messages: "/home/matt/mail/inbox"".
>
>Is it possible that my permissions are incorrectly set in the /mail
>directory?
>
>thanks,
>
>matt
>
>
>
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