> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use the new version (1.4.2, I believe) and am getting the
> following error when I try to login (yes, I figured out
> how to have multiple versions running ... it just took me sitting and
> thinking for a while.)
>
> Error opening ../data/default_pref
> Could not create initial preference file!
> ../data/ should be writable by user apache
> Please contact your system administrator and report this error.
>
> I'm not really certain WHO is trying this, or what directory (I know, it's
> a DATA directory <smile>) it is trying to do this in,
> since I believe these are relative directories.  I am running from
> /usr/share/webmailtest/ yada yada yada.

1. if you have default configuration options in conf.pl -> 4. General
Options -> 1. Data directory, data directory is
/usr/share/webmailtest/data

this directory must be writeable by webserver's user

http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/DataPermission

2. don't put custom scripts in /usr/share. This directory is used by
system packages. I think any local customizations should go to /usr/local.
Webserver scripts go to /var/www.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

3. check archives.
http://search.gmane.org

Group names are:
gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gmane.mail.squirrelmail.plugins = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-- 
Tomas


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