I must also add that I have done this with RedHat 7.3 servers and never had trouble with it? If this is my error, what changed between RedHat7.3 and Fedora1 to make this no longer work? On Thursday 22 April 2004 13:41, Tim Alberts wrote: > "directly editing or accessing the $user mbox file in the spool using an > editor IS BAD and nothing you should do!" > > I think you may have found the problem. I do not edit the > /var/spool/mail/user files, however, I do delete and move them from system > to system (changing file permissions along the way to match what they > were). > > Is this my error?