On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:35:07PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> This bug seems to be related to /var/mail permissions btw:
> 
>   open("/var/mail/24513.0.seamus", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0644) = -1 EACCES 
> 
> Normal users cannot write to /var/mail on Debian. Maildrop should
> try to create the lockfile somewhere under $HOME anyway.

% ls -l =maildrop =lockmail.maildrop
-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mail  10368 2004-08-20 00:40 /usr/bin/lockmail.maildrop
-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mail 157384 2004-08-20 00:40 /usr/bin/maildrop

Why your maildrop and/or lockmail aren't setgid mail - I have absolutely
no idea. Please investigate.

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