On 6 May 2012 at 20:19, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]>wrote: > >But, once I get around the installation issue, why does 'inc' > >need special group ownership and SGID treatment? Would that > >reason be related to the 'inc' in Fedora's build of nmh-1.4 > >asking me for a password when I want to 'inc' my email? > > Those things are unrelated. > > The issue is that "inc" wants to lock the mail spool file. On > some systems that requires that it be able to create a lock > file in the spool directory, which may require being setgid to > the "mail" group. > > As for asking for a password ... that sounds like inc is trying > to retrieve email via POP. Unless they're doing something else > strange.
That "POP" reference and 'man inc' helped me find the problem. I have MAILHOST defined in my environment. nmh now interprets MAILHOST as a POP host and wants to login. Undefining MAILHOST got rid of my last nmh 1.5 RC2 issue. Yahoo! Big THANKS Ken! -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
