[xmail] Re: Default permissions, umask

2005-02-18 Thread Sönke Ruempler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Friday, February 18, 2005 12:14 PM: Hi all, =20 I've noticed on my FreeBSD 5.3 box that all normal files (logs, maildir emails, dnscache files, tabindexes etc) are all created by xmail with a chmod value of 666, aka world readable/writeable by everyone. I'm sure

[xmail] Re: Default permissions, umask

2005-02-18 Thread decker
Thanks for the reply S=F6nke ! Make your MailRoot folder chmod 700. It does not matter what modes the files in you MailRoot have then. I saw that in the install notes, I was just hoping for a more thorough=20 solution. Having one directory's permissions be the line between fairly=20 secure

[xmail] Re: Default permissions, umask

2005-02-18 Thread Sönke Ruempler
On Friday, February 18, 2005 8:52 PM [GMT+1=CET], decker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that in the install notes, I was just hoping for a more thorough=20 solution. Having one directory's permissions be the line between fairly=20 secure email and wide open email makes me a little uneasy. An

[xmail] Re: Default permissions, umask -- Mail Rejection Warning

2005-02-18 Thread Sönke Ruempler
On Friday, February 18, 2005 9:23 PM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your Message got filtered out because it was not possible to validate it. No mail exchange could be identified as belonging to your organization. This is why it has been identified as spam. This is

[xmail] Re: Default permissions, umask

2005-02-18 Thread decker
Hi As I said, there is no extra security if the files are 600 or something similar (since your MailRoot is 700). XMail does not handle real system accounts for storing mail (and that is imho one of it's biggest advantages). I'm gonna have to disagree. I know what you are saying, but security