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dingham
06-16-2008, 03:51 AM
Hi Guys,
One of our users is getting the following error when trying to add an email alias/forwarder.


Error creating forwarder

Details

Unable to write to the alias file. Let your administrator know that /etc/virtual/example.com/aliases is unwritable.
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The file originally had the following permissions, which are normally fine:
-rw------- 1 mail mail 25 Jul 19 2007 aliasesRoutinely, I tried it with full 777 permissions, however it made no difference.

I also noticed the following empty file in the same directory, is it relevant?

-rw-rw-rw- 1 mail mail 0 Jun 16 10:56 aliases.temp

What's going on?

floyd
06-16-2008, 05:08 AM
Delete aliases.temp

dingham
06-16-2008, 04:11 PM
Turned out to be an odd quota discrepancy.