>>>>> Raul Miller writes: [quotation removed]
> I think you should look at this issue a bit differently. In one > sense, both policies are broken -- delivering mail to a spool > directory requires sgid programs for the user to read mail (in the > usual sense). A more secure and more robust solution would be to > deliver mail directly into the user's home directory. For example, > echo $HOME/Mailbox >$HOME/.forward That might work for you, but not for others: If your home directory is located in an AFS volume, then you will either need to open the directory to a certain pseudo-group/user for WRITES or your sendmail (or whatever) will need to run with the CellAdministrator token. Not good. And /var/mail is standardized (to my knowledge) by SVID and XPG, so why re-invent the wheel again? Dominik =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Visit the FAN SITE of the WORLD LEAGUE OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL: <A HREF="http://www.uni-mainz.de/~kubla/WLAF/Welcome.html>HTTP</A> or <A HREF="file:/afs/zdv.uni-mainz.de/homes/UFO/kubla/public_html/WLAF/Welcome.html">AFS file</A> access.
