Re: annoyance with procmail

2009-12-01 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Philip Guenther wrote: I get your point that altering the base to make a port happier when it's not a good idea in its own right seems wrong. Thus my labeling it a workaround and not a fix. IMO, the Right Thing is to have the port excise a chunk of the logic in

Re: annoyance with procmail

2009-12-01 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Philip Guenther wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Any procmail users around? I just use procmail in a minimal way, but I'm annoyed by the fact that it creates mailbox group writable under /var/mail/. I don't see a reason for it and it also makes

annoyance with procmail

2009-11-30 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi. Any procmail users around? I just use procmail in a minimal way, but I'm annoyed by the fact that it creates mailbox group writable under /var/mail/. I don't see a reason for it and it also makes the security script complains about the perms. Does anyone know of a reason why procmail would

Re: annoyance with procmail

2009-11-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009/11/30 09:14, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi. Any procmail users around? I just use procmail in a minimal way, but I'm annoyed by the fact that it creates mailbox group writable under /var/mail/. I don't see a reason for it and it also makes the security script complains about the

Re: annoyance with procmail

2009-11-30 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Any procmail users around? I just use procmail in a minimal way, but I'm annoyed by the fact that it creates mailbox group writable under /var/mail/. I don't see a reason for it and it also makes the security script complains about the perms.

Re: annoyance with procmail

2009-11-30 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@sendmail.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Any procmail users around? I just use procmail in a minimal way, but I'm annoyed by the fact that it creates mailbox group writable under /var/mail/. I don't see a reason

Re: annoyance with procmail

2009-11-30 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, patrick keshishian wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@sendmail.com wrote: ... (So that's another possible workaround: change the group of the spool to something that no one is a member of.) I believe, that would cause security to