Suresh --
...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
% David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that:
%
% > Are you sure that shouldn't be 2775 instead? I don't think we need
% > stickiness, but to ensure that only root and mail can write in there...
%
% Not the mailboxes - the directory /var/spool/mail/ ...
Right; that's what I meant.
%
% From the pine 4.21 docs ...
%
% In installations like mine where people run both mutt and pine 4.21, this is
% needed .
Ah. Well, that's the problem, then!
%
...
% 2. Is this what the "Mailbox vulnerable" message is about? Yes. It means
% that Pine was unable to create a lockfile in the spool directory, generally
% because of overly restrictive protections on the spool directory. The correct
"overly restirctive" eh?
% permissions on the spool directory for running Pine are 1777, i.e.
% read-write-execute permission for everyone, with the sticky-bit set, so only
% owners of a file can delete them.
So the "problem" is that PINE doesn't have a nifty utility to do
privileged file locking, and nobody would want to install a big program
like that with privileges to do it. Well, PINE Is Not Elm, so it can't
possibly be mutt :-)
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