Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:03:27 -0800 From: Will Yardley <william@hq.newdream.net> To: Trevin Chow <trevin@mail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installed Qmail -- "mailbox vulnerable"? Message-ID: <3A97409F.7703728@hq.newdream.net> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010223194215.02b0d208@mail.brightmail.com>
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i don't think qmail works with pine locally if you're using the maildir format - at least we generally use pine via IMAP with our qmail box. if you're using qmail with standard mail files, you should just change your /etc/pine.conf or /usr/local/etc/pine.conf (or wherever it is in your system) to look in the correct location. in any event, pine is most likely still looking in /var/spool/mail or /var/mail changing the permissions to 1777 on /var/mail or /var/spool/mail will get rid of the error, but won't really solve your problem. -william yardley new dream network Trevin Chow wrote: > > I just installed QMail on my system to replace sendmail. For some reason, > whenever I'm logged in as my user account and start up PINE, I get the message: > > [Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection] > > I've setup qmail to use /home/$/mail/inbox instead of /var/mail/$. I'm not > sure why pine is complaining about permissions on /var/mail when it should > even be looking at that anymore. if do an `echo $MAIL`, i get the > appropriate response (/home/<my_user_id>/mail/inbox). > > Any ideas? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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