I believe the Maildir, its directories, and its file, permissions should be set
to that of the user.
Try this: chown johndoe.johndoe Maildir -R
(the recursive option will change everything in there to johnjoe.johndoe)
Michael Wand
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Henrik Johansen wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have posted this before, but recieved no responses what so ever.
>
> When a mail is succesfully delivered, and I want to read it from pop3 the
> following happens:
>
> telnet mail.domain.com 110
> Trying w.x.y.z
> Connected to domain.com.
> Escape is...
> +OK ...
> user johndoe
> +OK
> pass pop3password
> +OK
> list
> 1 265
> .
> >> retr 1
> -ERR unable to open that message
> > quit
>
> the messages in domain-com/johndoe/Maildir/new/ is created with these permissions
> -rw------- 1 popuser popuser 265 jul 27 12:00 xxxxxx.domain.com
>
> "popuser" is a user with shell=/bin/false
>
> It seems that mails are created with wrong permission? OR??
> If I manually change permission to -rw-r----- I can "retr" the mail though.
> Anyone knows how to setup the correct permissions?
>
> And what ARE the default permission-settings on a newly arrived mail?
>
> Im thinking om reinstalling it all to make sure it is 'clean', any way to avoid that?
>
> Henrik Johansen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
