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fetchmail problem

hi,
i need help on my linux server. everytime i edit my fetchmail. the sender always receive this message and i cannot retrieve the mails to my pc.

"I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

The Postfix program

<wferrer@tycophil.com>: cannot access mailbox /var/mail/wferrer for
user
wferrer. cannot open file: Permission denied"

owensleftfoot

What are the permissions for /var/mail/wferrer?

bongets

ASKER

im new in using linux. i dont know how to specify permisions. all i did was add the user wferrer and assign a password. then i use the mcedit .fetchmailrc command to get the mails. the last thing i remember also was i use the usermod -p command. what does that do?

owensleftfoot

bongets

ASKER

i looked at the /var/mail and i saw this:
-rw-rw---- 1 568 568 0 Aug 17 18:04 wferrer but our format should be li this
-rw-rw---- 1 wferrer wferrer 0 Aug 17 18:04. how will i make it like this one?

many thanks

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