I want to add that the account was created sucessfully because I set it up with outlook and it works fine. I just cant get it to log into squirrelmail. Unfortunately, I need it to work with squirrel Thanks joefitz wrote: > > A couple of days ago I attempted to add a new e-mail account to one of my > domains through postfixadmin. It created fine, but when I attempt to log > into the account through squirrelmail, I get the error: Error opening > ../data/default_pref > Default preference file not found or not readable! > > Any of the previous email accounts are working fine. > > I'm currently using 1.4.8 of squirrelmail on a Fedora core 5 box. I did > not make any recent changes to the server and this problem just "appeared" > > I did a search for this error on the forum and followed all the > instructions that I found..ie..setting permissions ect with no avail. > > I'm pretty new to linux so please bear with me. > > The default_pref file is located in the following directory: > /var/www/puyallup/webmail/data > > I also confirmed the proper directory structure in conf.pl as absolute. > > Also, I checked phpmyadmin to verify the new email account was created in > the Mysql database and it was there. > > I also followed this guide: > > http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/DataPermission > > I do have a question. I don't understand the comman line at the bottom > (This is from the guide): > > If you have done all of the above, and it still doesn't work, and you are > running a linux like Fedora Core 4, that has SELinux, there here is what > to do: > My data and attachment directories are outside of the html space, as > recommended for security, and hence also outside of the space that > squirrelmail, run by httpd, is allowed to access. > > Running: > > # chcon -t httpd_squirrelmail_t /usr/share/squirrelmail/attachments > > # chcon -t httpd_squirrelmail_t /usr/share/squirrelmail/data > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-squirrelmail-error%3A-Error-opening-..-data-default_pref-tp15112396p15114686.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
