On 10May2012 01:23, Stephen Butler <stephe...@hotmail.com> wrote: | My grateful thanks for the comments and advice. | Once I've packaged mutt for microcore (with mail group) and reboot | into stock system, I can send an email via mutt without mail group via | smtp fine. Does mutt need the mail group for general email, maintenance, | or interaction with other software such as sendmail ?
Please bottom post. Thanks. Mutt needs setgid-mail on some (many?) systems to operate on the system spool file (/var/spool/mail/<user>, typically). It need no special privileges to operate on the user's files in their home directory. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. - Calvin
