From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 20:59:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zugzug.hq.newdream.net (zugzug.hq.newdream.net [216.246.35.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4364137B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from william@hq.newdream.net) Received: (qmail 12677 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2001 04:59:13 -0000 Received: from aura.infinitejazz.net (HELO hq.newdream.net) (206.111.89.244) by zugzug.hq.newdream.net with SMTP; 24 Feb 2001 04:59:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3A97409F.7703728@hq.newdream.net> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:03:27 -0800 From: Will Yardley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trevin Chow Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installed Qmail -- "mailbox vulnerable"? References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010223194215.02b0d208@mail.brightmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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//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