A reader of this list replied to me off-list and made this comment: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Mark Sansome wrote: > > > The problem is that (running procmail as root) if I follow the > > instructions I have found on various setup guides (including the > > SA wiki) I am supposed to put "DROPPRIVS=yes" into > > /etc/procmailrc. If I do that SA works fine, but procmail is > > unable to put mail for my other users in their /var/spool/mail > > directories. > > Everybody should own and have write permission to their own mailbox... >
Well, naturally. I thought... And then I checked. Just to be sure... This looks OK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/ total 53240 -rw-rw---- 1 admin mail 0 Jun 11 20:55 admin -rw------- 1 clamav mail 76386 Apr 22 17:04 clamav -rw-rw---- 1 wifey mail 44024789 Aug 7 10:48 wifey -rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug 7 17:11 mark -rw------- 1 root root 10316397 Aug 7 04:40 root -rw-rw---- 1 son1 mail 24127 Apr 7 11:03 son1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# So does this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l $MAIL -rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug 7 17:11 /var/spool/mail/mark But this looks wrong...: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su wifey Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls -l $MAIL -rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug 7 17:11 /var/spool/mail/mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ mail /var/spool/mail/mark: Permission denied (same with my other "users") Where is this access controlled from and how do I change it? I've tried man mail and googling for it but so far I've drawn a blank... Many thanks for your help... Mark
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