Am 2006-01-04 19:23:53, schrieb Dave Platt:

> I'm suggesting relaxing the latter, and making sure that Maildrop's
> behavior w/r/t the user's $HOME matches what's documented... that
> $HOME must not be world-writeable.  Group-writeable is maybe a

Which mean, on a Webserver <http://domain.tld/~$USER/> will not
more work.

> gray area... it's be safer to insist that only the owner be able
> to write $HOME and I'd be OK with that.

I set my permissions inside the $HOME which is working since I
use Debian GNU/Linux (begining with Slink/2.1 in 1999).

> What I think is excessive is Maildrop's current insistence
> that $HOME not have *any* group or world access at all.  I
> just can't figure out any technical justification for this
> requirement.

The described problem of the OP is realy strange, because I
run several courier Servers (imap-ssl, maildrop, authpgsql, 
mlm, ...) and it works perfectly with Woody and Sarge in the
default installation of Debian.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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