On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:19 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > strange. try file [mailbox], this should everywhere result with the same > information. how about ownership of your mailbox-file? > > Roger [neal@localhost mail]$ file neal neal: ASCII mail text [neal@localhost mail]$ file denise denise: empty [neal@localhost mail]$ file root root: writable, regular file, no read permission [neal@localhost mail]$ They are all owned by the users they belong with. Two have the group 'mail' and roots group is root. I'm still wondering why I had no file before logwatch dumped one there. Shouldn't I have had an account created like the other users when I made the user id?