Re: merged messages mystery (new, improved! with null-padded email sample)
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Michael Stone wrote:
> Those are the *correct* permissions for /var/spool/mail on debian. If
> uw-imapd is not coping properly with that, it is a serious bug. (I don't
> know if that's the case,
It isn't.
> it likely that the debian version was patched
Rather an alternate method is used (there is a small setgid mail helper
app that locks the mailboxes) to avoid having the spool be 1777.
> but the documentation wasn't.) It's probably worth asking the
> maintainer, and pointing out the relevent documentation.
>
Yeah, I should make a note that particular item is not valid for us.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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