On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:53 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote: > > What permissions does /var/spool/mail/john have? I guess mail group has > > read permissions? Just removing that should fix the error. > > -rw-rw---- 1 john mail 5676767 Aug 4 19:50 /var/spool/mail/john > > Those are the default permissions that sendmail uses I believe. Not sure > if removing "mail" group r/w would have any other impact for > sendmail/procmail? Thanks for taking the time to help.
It depends on your setup, but usually mail group shouldn't need read or write access to users' mails. Seems like a security risk to me in any case.
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