On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Mr BOFH wrote:

> 	gives an access pirv type error. I checked the var/mail/ thing and
> the files are marked for access by root only; so why should sendmail
> refuse to write the outgoing mail? It only happens with 'mail', not with
> pine. Pine dumps debug errors still :-(

Make sure you haven't filled up /tmp.  Do a df and see if / is too full.
Also make sure that /var/mail itself is rwx for root, each file within
should be rw- for the user whose name appears in the filename, --- for
everyone else, and var/mail should also be r-x for both group and world.
Besides that, I haven't a clue.

Good luck,

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