Re: #24510: procmail: procmail creates mailboxes with mode 660
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 03:32:51PM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
>
> I believe this is done so that the mail agents, running as setgid mail are
> able to append mail messages to your mailbox. They generally don't run as
> root. At least in my inetd.conf:
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
Yes but if such an MDA creates a mailbox for the first time, it will not be
owned by you! How can the MUAs tell which mailbox is whose? Can't I do
elm -f yourmailbox to read your mail?
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