On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:33:28AM +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> +++ USM Bish [linux-india] <11/12/01 23:14 +0530>:
> > 
> > The message is not because of the pop3 server installed. It is
> > a message from pine, which looks for this vulnerability during
> > execution. The permissions for the dir is:
> > drwxrwxrwt   2 root     mail         4096 Dec  7 23:06 mail
> > To get this as root do : chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
> 
> Small correction Bish ... this is because of the c-client library 
> shared by pine and uw-imapd / ipop3d.
> 
> Either of them can throw this warning - pine throws it when open-
> ing /var/spool/mail/$user whereas ipop3d will keep throwing it in
> /var/log/messages (or wherever syslog is set to log it).
> 
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Thanks for this info Suresh. It has been a fresh input for me

Bish

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