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[Mark_TVI]

There seems to be a permissions issue with CPanel and webmail. From what I understand when you access web mail via CPanel it somehow changes permissions on the mailbox. You need to run /scripts/mailperm to fix the issue so the mailbox works again.

I was wondering how many other people have experienced the same issue and what you did for a fix? The obvious quick fix is a Cron job (which is what we did) but if anyone has successfully implemented something different I would sure like to hear about it...

[Akash]

What iss teh issue exactly? I use both webmail and regular pop and havne't run into any problems with my mailboxes not working....

[uplinks]

I don't seem to find any problem ?? I don't understand too..

[Mark_TVI]

The permissions on the mailboxes are changed when the email is accessed through CPanel. There were several on the CPanel forums that had experienced it as well but no one had a fix.

If you run /scripts/mailperm you might very well see some boxes being repaired. Boxes you didn't know were broke in the first place. I ran into this because of a problem with a client not receiving email. I checked the permissions and they were wrong. I repaired them thinking it was a fluke, like 45 minutes later same problem. Permissions were changed, this time I repaired them again, checked the email via CPanel and then checked the permissions. They were wrong again!

I had to set up a Cron to keep on top of it. It reoccurs a lot! There was no official fix at CPanel so I was wondering if anyone had run into this yet and if so what they did to correct it other than setting up a Cron...