It could be that their connection was interrupted while they were accessing their mailbox using pop - check with 'ps axu | grep <username>' for stale connections when you get this error. Kill the hung process if that is the case... ----- Original Message ----- From: Cecilia <ccvasquez@utpl.edu.ec> To: <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Mail problem! > Hi, I'm in a hurry, I have a problem and I need your help. > > I have a mail server and recently two users can't read their > mail. This message appears: > > Could not log in to the mail server > The server responded: > > being read already /usr/spool/mail/samis > > please, enter a new password for user samis@... > > > So, please, did you ever have a problem like this? How can I resolve > it? > > Thank you very much. > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu