Topic: Screwed up permissions, now no e-mail

[Henry]

In a very late night attempt to gain write access to a folder on an e-smith server, I messed with the permissions settings for a folder farther up the file tree, now I don't receive e-mail. The mail is in the mail folder, but not being delivered.

What are the group and user permission settings for the user folders?

Thanks...........

on a side note, will upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6 reset the permission settings on these folders?

[Terry]

Here's what I have:
This is the users directory:
drwxr-xr-x    2 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 14 19:02 home
drwx------    6 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 15 16:39 Mail
drwxr-xr-x    5 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 14 20:02 Maildir

This is the users "Maildir" directory:
drwxr-xr-x    2 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Aug 13 22:23 cur
drwxr-xr-x    2 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Aug 15 20:09 new
drwxr-xr-x    2 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Aug 15 20:09 tmp

And the "Mail" directory:
drwx------    5 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 15 16:39 Drafts
drwx------    5 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 16 18:03 Keepers
drwx------    5 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 15 16:43 sent-mail
drwx------    5 xxxx     xxxx         4096 Feb 14 20:55 Trash

PS:  The "xxxx"'s are the users login name.

Terry

[Henry]

Fixed it............

Thanks Terry.............

[yanit]

if you dont know then you can always do "chown -R user folder"
                                                            "chgrp -R user folder"

then you are back in buisness and own your things again.