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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:29:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, current@freebsd.org, Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject:   Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.FBS.3.95.961030172600.4132C-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961030035427.12182f-100000@spirit.ki.net>

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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 	Can anyone verify what the other *BSD variants do? BSDi?
> NetBSD? OpenBSD?
> 
> 	Mark argued that FreeBSD is technically "unsupported" ... but
> that BSDi/NetBSD were ... if that's the case, then are they setting 
> their /var/mail to 1777?  Or do their admins go through the same 
> procedures as I just did to get IMAP4 to quiet down?

ls -l on two of our BSDi boxes shows 

drwxrwxr-x  2 root  mail  {size} mail 


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