Subject: Mail: Invalid Permissions

From: Marjorie Ross <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:10:12 -0600 (CST)

We are running Pine (Unix) on a Sequent S81. We add and delete users via
the DYNIX/ptx software. We have a problem when we delete a user and then 
try to add the same user back into the system. The problem is that after
the user has been added back to the system they get this message when 
they log in:  "mail: Invalid permissions". No mail ever gets to their
inbox however it does show up in /usr/mail/(userid). Does anyone know
what our problem is?

					Marge Ross - Data Processing Center
					[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:00:23 -0800 (PST)

> inbox however it does show up in /usr/mail/(userid). Does anyone know

When you delete the user, does /usr/mail/(userid) get deleted?  If
not, the user may have a different UID when you re-create the account,
while the mail spool is still owned by the old UID...

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