On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 03:32:51PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > I believe this is done so that the mail agents, running as setgid mail are > able to append mail messages to your mailbox. They generally don't run as > root. At least in my inetd.conf: > > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
Yes but if such an MDA creates a mailbox for the first time, it will not be owned by you! How can the MUAs tell which mailbox is whose? Can't I do elm -f yourmailbox to read your mail? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.0beta is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
