Excerpts from mail: 24-May-93 Mail delivery programs Timothy
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> Does anyone know of a mail delivery program which will run on Ultrix and:
> allows access to the .forward file without the directory having
> system:anyuser rl permission ?
> and
> will allow delivery of mail to the user's home directory ??
We generally run AMDS, which allows "authenticated" AFS home-area mail
delivery and multimedia-capable (both MIME and ATK format) composition
and reading tools. But some AFS users, because of their historical
familiarity with bsd-style mail readers, prefer using a central SMTP
postoffice machine on which to send and receive mail. In the later case,
we provide a symbolic link from ".forward" in the user's home area,
which has an acl of "l", to a file of the same name in ~/.public, which
has "rl" access control. This keeps the home area secure, while
providing read access to the postoffice machine's "unauthenticated"
sendmail program. (One could as well "authenticate" the postoffice
sendmail program and include a special UID having "rl" acl in each
user's home area, but that gets messy.)
Bob Dew
National Institues of Health
