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From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
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Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions??
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:00:04 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199604100854.BAA01214@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 10, 96 01:54:41 am
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> 
> > I thought /var/mail was supposed to be mode 1777 on BSD systems??
> > 
> > mail.local was designed to work in that scenario and has specific code to make
> > sure it's secure.. (granted, the net-2 mail.local may not have been solid, but
> > the 4.4BSD mail.local has been secure since the encumbered release and later
> > in the Lite releases)
> 
> login: fred
> passord:
> %
> % ls -l /var/mail/peter
> % ls: /var/mail/peter: No such file or directory
> % cat > /var/mail/peter
> 

That was the end of Terry's message.

Did this totally confuse anyone elses mailer?  I see these two
messages in elm:

>     1   Apr 10 Bite Me            (13)   Ha ha
>     2   Apr 10 Terry Lambert      (41)   Re: /var/mail default permissions?? 

and have this in my in box:

> From dufault Wed Apr 10 07:34:25 1996
> From: anon@anon (Bite Me)
> Subject: Ha ha
> Status: OR
> 
> Don't you wish you could do something about your mail...  give
> Fred $5 and he'll unlock it for you.
> 
> 					-- Anon
> 
> ^D
> % exit

which threw me for a loop a minute.  I don't think this is what
Terry was showing us.

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