Phil,
My config (Redhat 5.2) is slightly different !
[root@monza /var]# ls -ld lock log spool spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x 5 root uucp 1024 Aug 2 07:30 lock
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Nov 22 04:02 log
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Nov 12 12:03 spool
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Nov 26 15:08 spool/mail
and
virtual_localdelivery:
group = mail
mode = 0660
rgds
davidw
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