On 6.9.2011, at 22.35, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > -rw-rw---- 1 ebradley mail 9484323 Sep 6 15:16 /var/mail/ebradley Is there any reason for this to be 0660? Most likely not, so your problem goes away simply with chmod 0600 /var/mail/* and at the same time makes your system more secure.