Hi guys, I have installed postfix and Dovecot in my CentOS 5 box. mydomainname = xxxxxx.com myhostname = mail.xxxxxx.com But when I send mail from my yahoo mail, The mail is not send and the reply following message comes : The mail system <[email protected]>: maildir delivery failed: create maildir file /home/myownid/Maildir/tmp/1231489707.P8212.mail.xxxxxx.com: Permission denied My mail directory is /home/myownid/Maildir I have created Maildir according the tutorial http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix and configure the as the same I have tried with chmod 777 /home/myownid/Maildir but the same reply. I have also disabled the SELINUX and reboot the machine. >>grep SELINUX /etc/selinux/config # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: SELINUX=disabled This is the output of -la [root@mail ~]# ls -la /home/myownid/Maildir total 40 drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Jan 9 07:08 . drwx------ 6 myownid myownid 4096 Jan 9 05:00 .. drwx------ 2 myownid myownid 4096 Jan 9 07:06 cur -rw------- 1 myownid myownid 144 Jan 9 07:08 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 myownid myownid 10272 Jan 9 07:06 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 myownid myownid 124 Jan 9 07:08 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 myownid myownid 4096 Jan 9 07:06 new What should I do? Please help me. Amin