Greetings,

Tell us what MTA you're using: sendmail? postfix?

My sendmail book said:

	/var/spool/mqueue  700
	/var/mail          755

Cheers,


--- Trond_Endrestøl <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> Each time I try to send some mail, I get some strange errors, and it
> is probably related to bad permissions or owners.
> 
> Here's a sample session using mail (using Pine 4.30 gives similar
> results):
> 
> trond@kvanndal:~>mail trond
> Subject: Now let us see
> Here's some text.
> And here's some more text.
> .
> EOT
> trond@kvanndal:~>collect: Cannot write ./dff0PMGhr04885 (bfcommit,
> uid=1000): Permission denied
> queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tff0PMGhr04885, uid=1000:
> Permission denied
> 
> trond@kvanndal:~>
> 
> I have no way of telling which directory is used for these temp files,
> but I can only guess it has something to do with /var/spool/mqueue or
> possibly /var/mail.
> 
> What is the correct permissions and owners of /var/spool/mqueue and
> /var/mail?
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Trond Endrestøl                          |    trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no
> Patron of The Art of Computer Programming|   FreeBSD 3.5-S & Pine 4.31
> 
> 


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