On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:
I apologize for not responding earlier; I was on vacation until Tuesday. The answer to your question is:"If I understand your question correctly, the answer is yes. It is OK for mailbox files in /var/mail to be protected 0600 without any specific group setting. In fact, this is the normal and expected protection for mailbox files for the UW c-client library.
[rest snipped]This means that pine, alpine, and UW IMAPd are okay with the suggested change in this bug. I believe this concludes my obligations toward this bug; on a personal note, I hope that the policy actually does change in the suggested way.
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