Topic: SME 5.6 Mail user problem

[dallas]

Hi,
I'm sure there must be a mention of this before, but I can't find it.
I have one user on my server (me) that can't receive mail. All mail addressed to me goes into a black hole. The server appears to accept the message but it is not delivered. If I set the option to forward mail it is not forwarded. When I log into webmail the /var/log/messages has an error. "PHP Warning: SELECT failed: Can't open mailbox INBOX: no such mailbox".  
I have deleted the user (and was then not able to recreate it - but I fixed that with /sbin/e-smith/db accounts delete <user>)
I have recreated the user with the same result.  
I can log into webmail and send mail OK but I can't receive any mail (even replies end up in the black hole) As this is the most important user,    how do I fix this?

[dallas]

OK, I fixed it.  

For the record, the qmail log file (/var/log/qmail/current) showed that it was "Unable_to_switch_to_/home/e-smith/files/users/<user>:_access_denied."

This directory was owned by the UID rather than the user. chown <user>:<user> <user> fixed it!

Dallas