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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:23:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-SECURITY <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pine 4.21 port issues?
Message-ID:  <200008081923.PAA15089@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000808201626.I261@speedy.gsinet>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080020001.86895-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <20000808201626.I261@speedy.gsinet>

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<<On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:16:26 +0200, Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> said:


> For locking and for modifications to the inbox via copies and
> renaming (or for creating new inboxes upon first invocation) you
> need write access to the spool dir.

No, you don't.  You only need write access to the spool file.  Mutual
exclusion is provided by locking the file.  Inboxes are *created*
only by the LMDA, not by any MUA.

-GAWollman

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