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Re: non-setgid mail MUAs



On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:57:43 +0200 
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Matt Kraai wrote:

> BTW: Can someone explain me, why a mailbox should has to be group
> mail writable?  Are there any MDAs, which don't run with root
> permission?  With procmail installed, I can safely change the
> mailbox files to permission 600 (owned by the user).

The MDA may not be running against a local filesystem (eg NFS mount
of /var/spool/mail without root mapping).

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