The pop daemon must be able to write to the /var/mail DIRECTORY. Oh, and with those permissions on your Mailbox (why it's named Mailbox is beyond me) allows ANYone to read your mail and anyone in group USER to write (change) your mail.
Quoting Bart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I receive the following error message when attempting to collect email: > -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/mail/.bart.pop with uid 1000, gid 0. > Change permissions. > > What should the correct permissions be? > > Currently they're as follows: > -rwxrwxr-x 1 bart users 5753 Feb 27 20:09 Mailbox > > Many thanks, > Bart
