On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:57:43AM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > BTW: Can someone explain me, why a mailbox should has to be group mail > writable?
I think it's just an artifact, just like the sentence saying the spool directory should be mail.mail, when we haven't been using that in ages. :) > Are there any MDAs, which don't run with root permission? All that's needed is setgid mail to lock $MAIL, and permissions of the user the mail is being delivered to to write to $MAIL. No root permissions. > With procmail installed, I can safely change the mailbox files to > permission 600 (owned by the user). Works with maildrop, too. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
