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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: ganizani <ganizani@malawi.net>
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Subject: Re: Can't POP mail
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 03:43:50PM +0200, ganizani wrote:
> I might be asking too much but I have a problem here. Most of the
> mailboxes have wrong ownership.  I am running FreeBSD-4.0. I believe
> that this is because when the users were transfered from the old
> system we were three of us adding them to the new system from
> different terminals and some of the info was not entered correctly.
>
> Could someone provide a script that could rectify this problem for me.
> i.e. set the ownership of each /var/mail/user to user.

To fix the permissions of the directory, and each separate file, you
could use something like:

	#!/bin/sh
	cd /var/mail
	chown root.mail .
	chmod 775 .
	for fname in * ; do
	    chown "${fname}".mail "${fname}"
	    chmod 600 "${fname}"
	done

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