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From: Michael Slater <slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au>
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Subject: Can't open mail box
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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 ?

It's got me stumped.

Michael