Re: RfD: documentation for statically assigned uid and gid
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:59:05PM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote:
> > > Also, mailboxes must be writeable by group mail (Policy Manual, 3.1.1.1,
> > > 5.6).
> >
> > Can someone tell me why is this required?
> >
> > FWIW my $MAIL is mode 600 and it works just fine. Other users' mailboxes
> > on the system are 640 and they also all seem to work fine (at least nobody
> > has complained).
>
> 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
IIRC Exim worked with non-mail-writable $MAIL `out of the box'. When I added
a procmail transport, I also added "user = ${local_part}" to it.
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