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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 00:47:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
To:        Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pine 4.21 port issues?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080044370.26063-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080127370.87221-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>

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Matt Heckaman, at 01:33 -0400 on Tue, 8 Aug 2000, wrote:

> The point is, I strictly control world writable directories on my system,
> making /var/mail world writable to satisfy pine seems a silly thing to do
> in my opinion. I run qmail on the system through procmail, and all mail
> files are owned to the user name and group, ie the files themselves are
> not group owned to mail.

Your safest course of action is actually to probably not even use
/var/mail, but rather have mailboxes directly in each user's home
directory.  Qmail supports this. (/var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.mbox)

-- 
Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/




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