yeah.. thats the solution exactly you guess.. the permissions... you must be (the unix user) same group that is email, mail or etc... (permission of 777 would be ridiculous) if you create user with the mail user, there will no longer be problems. best regards Alp Altunel internatus.com System Administrator Analyst Programmer -- V-webmail Support Mailing List (http://www.v-webmail.org) Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/v-webmail/ To unsubscribe, send mail to: v-webmail-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the subject