On Thursday 22 April 2004 12:54, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 22.04.2004 schrieb Tim Alberts um 21:48: > > I changed no permissions from the default. The permissions are as > > follows: > > > > ls -ld /var/ /var/spool/ /var/spool/mail/ /var/spool/mail/talberts > > drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Apr 15 14:19 /var/ > > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Feb 12 16:11 /var/spool/ > > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Apr 22 11:47 /var/spool/mail/ > > -rw-rw---- 1 talberts mail 556 Apr 22 11:50 > > /var/spool/mail/talberts > > So which client do you use? Please be more descriptive what exactly you > do. I only saw the maillog error message complaining about wrong mailbox > permissions on bugzilla when someone did use mutt with wrong setup. > > Alexander I got this to happen on two Fedora Core 1 systems. My network mail server which is a heterogeneous with Windows Mac and Linux workstations. Also on my personal workstation after I discovered the problem I tested it on my own system. Full install of Fedora core 1 with nothing special I can think of to mention. I need to explain further that the error message is in /var/spool/mail/user file, but when I use pop3 (via kmail on localhost, or over the network) to get the email I don't get the message downloaded, I don't get any errors from the client side. I also don't get any emails delivered either. I have to log into the server and access the /var/spool/mail/user file direction to see the error message. After the error occurs, I can delete /var/spool/mail/user and the thing will work again for a short period of time (sometimes it fais immediately).
