On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:36:23PM +0800, Steve Vertigan wrote:
> Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> > If the message file is owned by root, then it needs to have a minimum mode
> > of 444, ie. read access for everyone. In your case, the root-owned files
> > most likely have modes that don't allow the user to read the file. Remember
> > that qmail-pop3d runs under the permissions of the user, not root.
>
> Yes I'm aware of that and the permissions were set to readable only by owner as
> you'd expect email to be but I'm mystified that you said the user can delete message
> then that are owned by root if they own the directory. Are you saying I could've
> done a DELE on the messages even though I couldn't view them?
Yes.
Greetz, Peter.
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