Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:19:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Dekkers <paul@nev.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970913211748.918I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970913104336.117G-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>
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On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote:
>
> >> I have a question about IMAP; I installed the IMAP port from the port
> >> collection on my FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD, but after compiling I get an error
> >> using pine in combination with IMAP. I get the following error message:
> >> '{gromit.nev.ml.org}INBOX : Error creating /var/mail/paul.lock.87341562.18.19g'
> >>
> >> What can I do against it? I got the same message using Linux btw...
> >> Please CC the reply to me, I'm not subscribed to the list...
> >
> >Make sure that /var/mail has perms 775.
>
> but in that case the owner has to be GID users or smth so that people with
> GID users can create lockfiles?
> but I don't want to let them put trash to it, is that possible? now they
> can write over there... :-(
Oh, the other part of it is make it owned by bin:bin.
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 512 May 20 14:31 mail/
This way sendmail et.al. can write stuff in there, but run as someone
other than bin, such as a user. But not just anyone can dump stuff in
there.
I made that change after the IMAP problem; they had some suggestions for
setting up /var/mail perms for best results.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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