/var/spool/mail/USER

[Davi Leal]

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3   Mailbox (/var/spool/mail/user) has to be owned by the user who is recipient and group mail, otherwise the old, "mis-owned," mailbox gets renamed "BOGUS.blah," and a new mailbox with proper ownership gets created.   But what is happening?. The new mailbox has root.mail owner. I execute  "chmod  user.mail  user"  and without raising any error message the result follow being the same "root.mail". Is there any known 'workaround' to solve it?.   Regards, Davi       /var/log/syslog   Oct 19 16:50:34 excalibur procmail[3915]: Renamed bogus "/var/spool/mail/david.leal" into "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.david.leal.1iGD" Oct 19 16:50:34 excalibur sendmail[3914]: QAA03913: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (65535/101), delay=00:00:16, xdelay=00:00:16, mailer=local, stat=Sent