Ben Bucksch wrote: > auauauau! Do this only for debugging! This gives *everyone* write access > to the mailbox dir! Meaning anybody could walk in and delete your mail > and probably even replace it with something they forged. > > Better do chmod u+w /var/spool/mail/david > > Always be careful with a+ or o+ of sensitive files/dirs :).
well, yes, ok. :-) I'm not even sure whether Mozilla needs write access anyways... goold old Netscape put a locking file into the mail dir, so it needed write access. How does Mozilla do it? Since I don't use Linux on this machine I can't test it now. - Holger
