Re: Bug#24772: OLD PROPOSAL] Mailboxes should have perms 600
In article <cistron.E10qZgg-0000GL-00@polya>,
Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I know the Pine 4.x series has issues with perms on mailboxes.
>> This needs to be kept in mind.
I think that's permissions on the mailspool directory, not the mailbox itself.
>The original submitter asked why 660, owned by group mail was needed.
>This could be part of the reason.
It's not needed. On some systems the Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) runs as
user nobody, group mail. All mailboxes have to pre-exist and be mode 660,
group mail so that the MDA can write new messages to the mailbox.
I know of no MDAs in Debian that do this - they're all setuid root and
switch to the users UID when delivering mail.
Mike.
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