Re: /var/mail/ permissions are messed up in newly installed Etch

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

H.S. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I reinstalled Etch yesterday and today when I started mutt I got:
> /var/mail/user1: Permission denied (errno = 13)
>
> where user1 is my username. The permissions in /var/mail are:
>  > ls -l /var/mail
> total 0
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 Debian-exim
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:29 gdm
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:26 hal
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 identd
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 messagebus
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:31 user1
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 16:32 sshd
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 statd



I changed the permission of the users so that the owner of their mail 
file is <user>:mail and the permissions are -rw-rw---- . But could 
somebody shed some light on what other mail files are for above? What 
are their permissions that I am supposed to set?

Also, if somebody is familiar with exim/email on Debian, could somebody 
explain why the permissions were in such weird state in Etch after 
installation?

Thanks,
->HS