Subject: !HELP! How to avoid the mail-lock (fetchpop / popclient)

From: Marc Weeber <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:29:41 CET

Hello fellow debians,

Last week, I moved over from slackware 3.0 to debian 1.1. What a 
relief, really, except for one thing: my connection with the world. 
Everything installed just fine, However, my mail really bothers me.

Here, at my work I have to retrieve my mail from a novell server. I 
can do this by `fetchpop' or `popclient'. This is all right, but when 
I'm usingthe mailagent  Pine as an ordinary user, I only can read the 
inbox file, but I cannot alter it: pine can't get the mailbox lock 
from the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem.

Last night, I managed to work my way around the problem with 
chmod-ding some directories and files. But at the xx-th startup, 
Everything was ruined again. For deleting my mail, I  have to use W95 
again (arghhh...)

If someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very 
pleased.

thanks in advance,

Marc
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From: "Vadik V. Vygonets" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:26:07 +0300 (IDT)

> from the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem.

Your inbox must have the following permissions/owner/group:
-rw-rw----   1 vadik    mail       105980 Sep 12 22:16  /usr/spool/mail/vadik
Check that.

> If someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very 

Hope it helps.

> thanks in advance,

My pleasure.

> Marc

Vadik.

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From: Boris Beletsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 02:57:24 +0300 (IDT)

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M.Weeber>Hello fellow debians,
M.Weeber>
M.Weeber>Last week, I moved over from slackware 3.0 to debian 1.1. What a 
M.Weeber>relief, really, except for one thing: my connection with the world. 
M.Weeber>Everything installed just fine, However, my mail really bothers me.
M.Weeber>
M.Weeber>Here, at my work I have to retrieve my mail from a novell server. I 
M.Weeber>can do this by `fetchpop' or `popclient'. This is all right, but when 
M.Weeber>I'm usingthe mailagent  Pine as an ordinary user, I only can read the 
M.Weeber>inbox file, but I cannot alter it: pine can't get the mailbox lock 
M.Weeber>from the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem.
M.Weeber>
M.Weeber>Last night, I managed to work my way around the problem with 
M.Weeber>chmod-ding some directories and files. But at the xx-th startup, 
M.Weeber>Everything was ruined again. For deleting my mail, I  have to use W95 
M.Weeber>again (arghhh...)
M.Weeber>
M.Weeber>If someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very 
M.Weeber>pleased.
sounds like u need to recompile pine , precompiled pine sometimes have this
problem.
hope it helps 
borik

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From: Marc Weeber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:28:34 +0200 (MET DST)

Hello Debians,

I compiled the kernel with the necessary requirements for DOSEMU. I
installed the debian package and just entered `dos' at the prompt. Result:

dos: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'

Well, I do have the library, what went wrong and how can I adjust DOSEMU?

thanks in advance,

Marc
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From: Shaya Potter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:26:39 -0400 (EDT)

you need the xcompat package, the dosemu that is included in debian is 
still aout.

shaya
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