At 03:18 PM 3/29/97 -0800, you wrote: >Can someone tell me what this error message means, and whether it is a >permanent error? > >> --- The transcript of the session follows --- >>bellmail: cannot append to /usr/spool/mail/ozmen >>bellmail: cannot create /root/dead.letter >>bellmail: error closing file: A file descriptor does not refer to an open >>file. >>550 <[log in to unmask]>... Insufficient permission It probably means the mailbox is full, as it can't append (add to) the directory /usr/spool/mail/ozmen , which sounds like a mail spool to me. Also, it appears the dead letter directory is also full. So it goes....set him nomail or unsub. I always do the latter. cyclops > >Thanks, >Sherry Beauchamp > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sherry Beauchamp Social Science Research Network (SSRN) > [log in to unmask] http://www.SSRN.Com > > Leading Social Science Research Delivered to Your Desktop Daily > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dan Lester [log in to unmask] In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Erasmus, 1534