Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Mark W. Eichin writes ("Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work"):
...
> As shipped, it *was* installed setuid root + setgid mail... could you
> check your installation and verify, and perhaps be more specific about
> movemail's complaint?  Also include the actual modes of your
> /var/spool/mail directory, and an indication of what you're using to
> invoke movemail. 

Why does movemail need to be setuid root ?!

> % ar p /p/a1/debian/mirror/binary/editors/emacs_19.31-2.deb data.tar.gz | tar tzvf - | grep movemail
> -rwsr-sr-x root/mail     14516 1996-06-03 00:05 usr/lib/emacs/19.31/i386-debian-linux/movemail

You mean:
 dpkg --fsys-tarfile .../editors/emacs_19.31-2.deb |tar tzvf - |grep movemail
or even, since you just wanted it listed:
 dpkg --contents .../editors/emacs_19.31-2.deb |grep movemail

The `ar' format is a piece of internal knowledge which you shouldn't
need to make use of.

Ian.