Thanks for your reply >You should use a full non-relative path, and the location should >ideally be out of the web server's reach. Ok I've put the data directory also in /var/local and used an absolute path >If that's true, then SM is probably not seeing them. Show the actual >config/config.php entries for each setting and show the actual long >listing (ls -l) for each directory. $data_dir = '/var/local/squirrelmail/data/'; $attachment_dir = '/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/'; [root@binarybreeze squirrelmail]# cd /var/local/squirrelmail [root@binarybreeze squirrelmail]# ls -lh total 8.0K drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4.0K Aug 20 15:01 attach drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4.0K Aug 21 13:12 data >Also you didn't show the actual error. >We can't do anything for you without the exact error message. For attachments the error is: Could not move/copy file. File not attached For user prefs the error is: Preference file, /var/local/squirrelmail/data/rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, could not be opened. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SM-Installation-permission-issues-tp19085969p19088923.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ----- 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