Public bug reported:
I have a Dell pre-installed Ubuntu Inspiron 6400.
I installed sendmail (default config) to stop anacron squinnying. I
then found mails from cron were going into dead.letter as sendmail
/etc/mail/aliases file mapped root: oem.
I changed this to push root mail to my login name --> nick.
Then testing with alpine, mails sent to root are sent ok, but reading
mails from mutt disallow me to delete (read-only mail box).
The wrong group (man ?) got assigned to /var/mail/ (how to trace this
where this happened, I do not know):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -lsa /var
...
1 drwxrwsr-t 2 root man 1024 2007-09-20 20:54 mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -lsa /var/mail/nick
3 -rw------- 1 nick man 2225 2007-09-20 20:55 /var/mail/nick
I guess /var/mail should be owned by root.mail, and /var/mail/{name}
should be owned by {name}.{namegroup} (which fixes it up).
Nick
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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/var/mail/{name} wrong permissions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141346
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