On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:
I apologize for not responding earlier; I was on vacation until Tuesday.
The answer to your question is:
"If I understand your question correctly, the answer is yes. It is OK for
mailbox files in /var/mail to be protected 0600 without any specific group
setting. In fact, this is the normal and expected protection for mailbox
files for the UW c-client library.
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This means that pine, alpine, and UW IMAPd are okay with the suggested
change in this bug. I believe this concludes my obligations toward this
bug; on a personal note, I hope that the policy actually does change in
the suggested way.
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