Bug#62668: permissions on the mail spool directory

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

severity 62668 wishlist
thanks

Well, let's make a proposal for this also:

Current Policy, 5.6, states:

   The mail spool is 2775 mail.mail, and MUAs need to be setgid mail to
   do the locking mentioned above [...]

AFAIK, we have never followed this, and I have not received any reports
against base-files saying the mail system does not work properly
because of "wrong ownership".

Since there is no need to have the mail spool owned by mail, and 
policy itself lacks a rationale for it, I propose that we change 
policy to match current practice:

s/mail.mail/root.mail/

(which, I think, it is also current practice in other Linux distributions).

I'm looking for seconds for this proposal.

Thanks.