Permission denied when doing Postfix ubuntu tutorial

Question

Im working on this tutorial Postfix mail server. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix

When i run the command. su - fmaster mail

I get the error. Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/fmaster: Permission denied No mail for fmaster

also i sign in as fmaster. terminal -> mail.

/var/mail/fmaster: Permission denied No mail for fmaster

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '12 at 06:09

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           sudo touch /var/mail/$USER
           sudo chown $USER:mail /var/mail/$USER
           sudo chmod o-r /var/mail/$USER
           sudo chmod g+rw /var/mail/$USER

answered Feb 07 '12 at 06:09

mr.low

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you can replace last two lines with: sudo chmod 660 /var/mail/$USER – code7amza Jul 20 '13 at 05:13

Permission denied when doing Postfix ubuntu tutorial

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