Linux – Permission denied linux mail command

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I ran a simple command "mail" on my Suse Linux 11.1 box and it's display "/var/mail/john: Permission denied"

I had two users, john and peter

When I login as peter and ran "mail" it display the same error when I login as john

"/var/mail/john: Permission denied"

I'm using postfix as my MTA.

Your help will be much appriciated.

Thanks guys,

Here's the output from the command ls -l /var/mail

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-08-06 11:54 /var/mail -> spool/mail

Here's the out output when I run echo $MAIL

/var/mail/john

I login with different user and run echo $MAIL it output the same line /var/mail/john

Best Answer

The user is probably not in the mail group.

You can run groups to check in which groups you are. As said we also need the output of ls -l /var/mail

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