In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know the Pine 4.x series has issues with perms on mailboxes. >> This needs to be kept in mind.
I think that's permissions on the mailspool directory, not the mailbox itself. >The original submitter asked why 660, owned by group mail was needed. >This could be part of the reason. It's not needed. On some systems the Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) runs as user nobody, group mail. All mailboxes have to pre-exist and be mode 660, group mail so that the MDA can write new messages to the mailbox. I know of no MDAs in Debian that do this - they're all setuid root and switch to the users UID when delivering mail. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
