Re: merged messages mystery (new, improved! with null-padded email sample)
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:57:16PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>
> > It's a possibility but I am leaning in another direction right now:
> >
> > I suspect a problem with /var/spool/mail 's permissions.
>
> I agree. see my reply to the bug report you sent in.
>
> > In
> > /usr/share/doc/uw-imapd-ssl/bugs.txt.gz one can read:
> >
> > . /tmp, /usr/tmp or /var/tmp (if present), and the mail spool directory
> > must be protected 1777 (world write with sticky bit); otherwise
> > mailbox locking and updates won't work.
> >
>
> UW also provide a little program called mlock that handles locking when
> the modes aren't 1777. Debian uses that. So this section of the
> documentation isn't relevant for us.
Shouln't that package become mandatory when using any of the
uw-{imapd,ipopd} packages?
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Louis-David Mitterrand - ldm@apartia.org - http://www.apartia.org
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