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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:02:30 +0000
To: Michael Slater <slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au>
From: Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl>
Subject: Re: Can't open mail box
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Hi,

Did you check sendmail's perms? Should be -r-sr-sr-x

Bart


At 11:14 AM 11/28/96 +0800, Michael Slater wrote:

>Hello,
>      No doubt i am missing something stupid, but i am having a problem 
>with FreeBSD 2.1.5, whenever i create a new user account, and they try to 
>use pine for Email, or anything else an error message "Cant open mailbox, 
>access is readonly" comes up. I check the perms of /var/mail/username, and
>they are -rw--------  1  username.group	495, ect....
>
>what are the perms supposed to be for users mail folders, as well as the 
>/var/mail directory ?