Les Mikesell wrote: >> But the permissions in lower folders, where I can create sub-folders, >> are exactly the same as the permissions in the top folders, where I >> cannot. > Is SELinux active, and if so is the context set correctly? Thanks for the response. No, SELinux is not running: SELINUX=permissive Incidentally, I haven't seen anyone running CentOS-6 state that they are able to create a top-level folder with Fedora-16/KMail . -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin