Hi Balaji, You should change ownwer and group for the directory to apache user/group.
Lucas ---------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 5:22:03 PM, you wrote: BRR> hi, BRR> I installed qmail .it is working fine with outlook express.then i BRR> installed *squirrelmail1.4.1* for web interface. but iam not able to BRR> login.iam getting following error metioned below. BRR> SquError opening ../data/default_pref BRR> Could not create initial preference file! BRR> ../data/ should be writable by user apache BRR> Please contact your system administrator and report this error. BRR> please guide me how to slove this problem. BRR> regards, BRR> Balaji >>