John wrote: > nice idea but the uids are the same across the network; the gid differ > but that should not matter as the access is 600. I can create and > delete files read them etc as expected. > > The files are mounted with nfs3 > > snout -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=3,rw,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,user,suid > 172.16.4.42:/ so if it is not nfs, might be something else with the mail?