Bill Jonas on Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:00:12 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] IPOPD broken; can't get mail 

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:04:54AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> workhorse:/var/spool/mail# ls -la turgon
> -rw-r--r--    1 turgon   mail        78640 Mar  5 23:52 turgon

Your problem got resolved, and that's good, but you might want to fix
the permissions on this.  /var/spool/mail/user should be owned by
user.mail and mode 660.  As it is, any user on your system can read your
mailbox, and mail-related daemons can't write to it unless they're
running as root.

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