Thanks for all the suggestions and answers. In the end, though, I tried the simple fix of: # ln -s /home/<user>/Mailbox <user> # chown <user> <file> # chgrp <group> <user> # chmod 500 <user> and it worked just fine, whether connecting via telnet, ssh or a term. Only odd thing I noticed was that the owner of the symlinks was changed to root and group mail, and the permissions were changed to u=rx g=rx o=rx, however, as long as the Mailbox file in the users home directory is set properly, it still can't be viewed by others were someone to try to % cat /var/mail/archon. Sure, it's not elegant, but it worked :) Thanks again!