On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:05:35PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

Hi,

> The mail group has read/write access to /var/mail/* and is intended for the 
> mail daemons. For instance, Dovecot IMAP runs as the dovecot user ID, with 
> mail group permission.

I wouldn't overrate this issue though it's a reasonable concern.
But on systems where you run MTAs such as ssmtp you usually don't store
mails locally in /var/mail/.

Sven
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I'd say stay in bed, world
Sleep in peace
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