Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2012-06-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I failed to notice this bug before filing http://pad.lv/992145 (since I wasn't sure the bug existed in Debian). I've linked that bug to this one. -- Geoffrey Thomas http://ldpreload.com geo...@ldpreload.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2010-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I just encountered this issue with Debian squeeze. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427561 says the solution is to install the uw-imap-utils package (which is named uw-mailutils on Debian). But before installing that I realized there was a chain of dependencies to mlock, so I tried

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2010-07-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I just encountered this issue with Debian squeeze. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427561 says the solution is to install the uw-imap-utils package (which is named uw-mailutils on Debian). But before installing that I realized there was a

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2007-08-17 Thread Marc Glisse
Hello, this issue about the permissions on /var/mail is item 7.10 in the FAQ that comes with alpine in imap/docs/. According to it, if you want alpine to work correctly, you need to either change the permissions of /var/mail so anyone has write access, make alpine sgid mail (as the old pine

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2007-03-10 Thread Piotr Engelking
Package: alpine Version: 0.83+dfsg-1 Severity: normal At startup, after processing INBOX, alpine displays the following warning: Folder vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection However, according to the Debian policy, /var/mail should have access permissions set to