Simon Waldman wrote: > Holger Metzger wrote: > >> Jim Newton wrote: >> >>> hi holger, does mozilla really need access to /var/spool/mail or >>> simply to /var/spool/mail/<user>? >>> >>> -jim >> >> >> >> I'm not sure. >> IIRC Netscape needs write access to /var/spool/mail/ to write a locking >> file there. > > > This is the answer I was given at one point... I wonder whether this is > a UNIX standard, or simply a mozilla thing. If the latter, couldn't the > locking files go somewhere like /var/lock/? > > It doesn't affect me on a single-user machine, but on a big system using > mozilla this way any user could delete any other user's mail! >
The mail spool files themselves are still 0660 and owned by the user...
