Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:24:35AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > The netscape message was missing from hs' mailq. Why?
>
> This is almost normal, I think:
...
> So my guess from what you've said is that netscape is either being run
> as root or is using some setuid program somewhere to feed its mail
> into exim's queue (I seem to remember netscape having it's own program
> called "movemail"?)
Yes it is using movemail. I did not realise that it is netscape's own
program. Netscape was not used as root so I your second guess is
probably right.
...
> which is 02775 and looks right to me. If a Debian package asked you
> to change the permissions on /var/mail, you should probably report
> that as a bug against the package.
OK. I will remember in the future.
> It seems that your messages are getting onto your queue. Are they
> still not getting delivered? Try running exim -q -d as root and see
> what it tells you.
No, there is no problem with exim. Once they get into the queue, the
delivery is fine.
Thanks for your help.
Johann.
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