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From: sgs@projtech.com (Stan Sawyer)
Subject: Re: Error message when retrieving mail with Eudora from BSDI server
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Eudora uses POP to pick up e-mail.  When you compile it, you can specify 
the temporary file location.  (I believe that the default if /tmp.)  If 
these users can't access this location (permissions, directory does not 
exist, etc.) they would get this message.

Tom Techoueyres (tom@neptune.com) wrote:
> I have a few customers that can't retrieve their mail from a BSDI server using 
> Eudora. They get the following message:
> "ERR System error, can't open temporary files"

> These users have nothing different from the other users. I even deleted them 
> and re-add them into the system, but I still get the error message.

> Tom
> tom@neptune.com

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