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


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