Sometime on Feb 19, Ajitabh Pandey assembled some asciibets to say:

> > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [LIH] Re: Problems with mails
> > Do a mailq... then check permissions on wherever
> > your mail spool is located
> > (1777, ideally).

[snip]

> But  one thing I couldn't understand that:
> (1.) The /var/spool/mqueue is world accesible (777)
> isn't it a security/privacy threat? I poll the mail as
> a user, so what can I do to so that it does the job
> and is not 777(755 is ok)


Read the above in its entirety, and you'll see that what Suresh told you
to do, and what you did are different.  The 1 makes all the sticky
difference.

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