From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 14 17:23:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA26160 for current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from multivac.orthanc.com (root@multivac.orthanc.com [206.12.238.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA26155 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (lyndon@localhost) by multivac.orthanc.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA12285; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199604150022.RAA12285@multivac.orthanc.com> From: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP To: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 1996 01:17:00 +0700." Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:22:13 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >ok, but which permission is correct and how will I tell it smail (from the >ports collection)? >SMail works only with 1777 on /var/mail ... There should be a README- in the smail source tree that documents the changes necessary for 4.4BSD systems. You have to change the delivery agent for "local" to invoke /usr/libexec/mail.local, rather than having it attempt direct delivery to the recipients mailbox. The modification goes into the smail directors file. You can use the "local" mailer definition in /etc/sendmail.cf to see how mail.local needs to be invoked. The "port" should be applying this fix. I'll take a look at it later today and see about submitting a patch. --lyndon