Re: Unable to receive mail.

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.08.13 12:33 Charles Sullivan wrote:
> After upgrading from Balsa 1.1.1 to 1.1.7 and again to 1.2.pre-1, I am 
> unable to
> receive mail.  (I could with v 1.1.1).
> 
> I'm getting the message:
>   " Couldn't lock /var/spool/mail/<name>
>     POP3 mailbox <name> accessing error: Could not open mailbox for 
> spooling"
> 
> Here is /var/spool/mail:
> drwxrwxr-x     2 root         mail         4096  Aug 13 04:10 .
> drwxr-xr-x    14 root         root          4096 Aug 10 08:14 ..
> -rw-rw-r--    1 <name>   root        66433 Aug 13 13:59 <name>
> -rw-------   1 root          root          2051 Aug 13 04:10 root
> 
> Any idea what I've done wrong?
> 
> Regards,
> Charles Sullivan
> 
> 

Do you have a subdirectory under /var/spool/mail that matches your
LOGNAME/USER when you're logged in to run Balsa for your mail?

jmc