after giving myself write acces to the directory, /var/spool/mail i can now read this mail with mozilla. great!. Now i'd also like to set up a mozilla mail account so my user (jimka) can read the mail from root. Since i'm the only user... is this possible? In my fantasy, mozilla would ask me for a password in the same way it asks me the password of a pop user on a foreign machine.
-jim Holger Metzger wrote: > Peter Weilbacher wrote: > >>On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:05:10 +0200, Travis Crump wrote: >> >> >> >>>The mail spool files themselves are still 0660 and owned by the >>>user... >> >> >>OK, so nobody can read mail of somebody else. But if the dir is world >>writable everybody can still *delete* the mails of all other users... > > > Yes, this is a serious problem. I don't know a better solution than > that. BTW, this is not a new Mozilla thing, good old Netscape 4 did it > the same way. > > - Holger >
