On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:19:46AM -0700, Spiro Azkoul wrote: > I am getting the following message in the upper left hand corner after I log > on to my squirrelmail I suspect it is a permission problem? Any feedback > would help. > > Anyone seen anything like this before? > > ERROR: > ERROR : Could not complete request. > Query: CREATE > Reason Given: CREATE failed: Can't create mailbox node /home/user/: > Permission denied > > Also, I am getting this in my sendmail logs: > > Forwarding errors: > > /home/user/.forward.linux: Permission denied: 72 Times(s) > /home/user/.forward: Permission denied: 72 Times(s)
Seems simple enough. The permissions on your /home heirarchy are too restrictive for the various components of your mail service to function properly. The first error will be coming from your IMAP application, which does not have sufficient access to create new files/directories in user home directories. The second error is from your mta, which does not have sufficient access to read the forwarding files. I take it, from these signs, that neither your webserver nor your mta are running as root. Good. Don't switch them to running as root because that would be insecure. However, you will have to either a) move the relevant files out of the /home heirarchy to somewhere else, where these processes can safely have access to them or b) change the permissions and/or ownership on the /home heirarchy so that the applications have sufficient access to the files in their current locations. I can't really be more specific without knowing more about your set-up. -- Bruce Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards, apart from ostriches if you punch them hard enough. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
