On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:43:48PM +0000, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Hi, > > I am in an "interesting" situation. I have two accounts on the same machine. > I would like both of them to share the same mail box (I will be able to see > the same folders on both accounts).
All folders, or some? How do you access those folders? > > I tried putting the mailbox on a "shared" dir : "/usr/local/mail", and set > that dir G+RW (both users are on the sake group). It did not work, since new > mails are set U+RW and not G+RW (the other user cannot read the dirs). Use mode 2770 (rwxrws--) for dirs. This will make created files owned by the directory's group. What mailer do you use? what umask? > > I do beleave the real solution to this is having a imap server on the lan, but > I dont have time to learn all that's needed ATM. (can you point me to RTFMs > for the future?). I believe it is relatively easy to change that mapping in imap . On wu-imap it would require a rather trivial patch to sysdep/unix.c (IIRC: the file where the settings are set). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
