On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:59:05PM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote: > > > I believe this all depends on the mail daemon > Sendmail for example is stupid and does require the group > QMail uses some method of delivering mail as the user so it doesn't > I'm not quite sure at the moment how exim or postfix deliver mail postfix changes uid/gid to the target user, thus mail spools are mode 0600 (and created that way by postfix) personally i think this is the only sane way to do things, group readable/writable mail spools just opens up all user's mail to everyone if any one setgid MUA has a bug. i also use mode 3775 for the spool directory rather then 2775 so if any setgid mail MUA has a bug im no worse off then the old 1777 mail spools that are still commonly used. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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