Hi Joey,

Saturday, September 7, 2002, 4:49:51 AM, you wrote:

> What specific rights does the /var/spool/mail uses?
> I've check the directory and it gives me the following:

> #] ls -l
> drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 at
> drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 cron
> drwxrwxr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 mail
> drwxr-xr-x    2 admin    admin        4096 Sep  7 09:40 mqueue

I have this too.

> Given the user rights, I tried to telnet my port 25 and sent a message
> to the user I created but it gives me the following error:

> 451 4.0.0 Can't create transcript file ./xfg873P3f03593: Permission denied

I have never seen this before

> The "mail" directory is denying the mail to be delivered to the said 
> directory.

In what way is it denying the mail to be delivered?

> Tried to changed it as root and solved the problem.

How exactly did you change it?

> My question is, it this the right way to make it work? or I have something 
> to tweak in the configuration file?

You shouldn't really have to tweak it.

> TIA.

> Joey

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Kind Regards,

Ben Kennish
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