Suresh --
...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
% David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that:
%
% Are you sure that shouldn't be 2775 instead? I don't think we need
% stickiness, but to ensure that only root and mail can write in there...
%
% Not the mailboxes - the directory
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David T-G wrote:
"overly restirctive" eh?
new reason to switch to mutt - pine is a security risk :^)
% permissions on the spool directory for running Pine are 1777, i.e.
% read-write-execute permission for everyone, with the sticky-bit set, so only
% owners
I suspect this is an FAQ. However, I couldn't
find the answer. On Tru64 (Digital Unix) I
configured mutt with --enable-flock --disable-fcntl
together, only one of them as well as without either
of them. In all cases, when I read my mail with
the resulting executable and try to save a message,
I
Bharadwaj --
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
% I suspect this is an FAQ. However, I couldn't
It very well might be :-)
% find the answer. On Tru64 (Digital Unix) I
% configured mutt with --enable-flock --disable-fcntl
% together, only one of them as well as without either
Sure; those
David,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Although this was happenning on mailboxes that
live in my user area and that have the right
permissions, setting execute premissions of
mutt_dotlock (they were not set initially)
did the trick.
Thanks again,
Bharadwaj
(Mutt can bounce AND thread!!
Time
David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that:
and that means that only root and the mail group -- and that probably
means *not* you - can write in there. To get around that but not tie so
much power into mutt itself, there is a little binary called mutt_dotlock
which should be installed with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that:
(Mutt can bounce AND thread!!
Time has come to abandon ELM !!)
sig fodder, several years ago ;)
--
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mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI
Pardon this fortune.
Suresh --
...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
% David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that:
%
% and that means that only root and the mail group -- and that probably
%
% Oh - and make sure /var/spool/mail has 1777 permissions.
Are you sure that shouldn't be 2775 instead? I don't
Bharadwaj --
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
% David,
%
% Thanks for the quick reply.
You're quite welcome.
%
% Although this was happenning on mailboxes that
% live in my user area and that have the right
Really? You mean you had a mailbox in a directory like $HOME/Mail and
the
David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that:
Are you sure that shouldn't be 2775 instead? I don't think we need
stickiness, but to ensure that only root and mail can write in there...
Not the mailboxes - the directory /var/spool/mail/ ...
From the pine 4.21 docs ...
In installations like
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