Ravi Ananth Giri K. rearranged electrons thusly:
> The directory permissions and the permissions for the files under that
> directory are different. All anybody and everybody can do is see how big my
> mails are.
> Having said that, The problem does go away if the directory permissions are
> changed, but then pine can't read the mailbox.
> I upgraded to Sendmail 8.11.2 yesterday. Apparently the latest sendmail has a
> lot more security considerations.
sendmail 8.11.2 doesn't fix anything security wise I think - only two or three
minor bugs from 8.11.1
Check if the directory /var/spool/mail/ has 1777 - like mine. I'm running pine
4.31 and mutt 1.25i and can read my mailspool with both clients.
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