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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Popper 2.52
Message-ID:  <199807161214.IAA09471@bilver.magicnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199807160936.TAA09457@chunga.apana.org.au> from Dave Edwards at "Jul 16, 98 07:06:58 pm"

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Dave Edwards recently said:
> 'Ulf Zimmermann scribbled..'

> > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 06:42:21PM +0930, Dave Edwards wrote:

> > > We are having a minor problem too in that for a new user, qpopper
> > > cannot create the temp file .$username.pop in the mail spool
> > > directory.  If the file already exists there is no problem.  

> > > Anyone else seen this?

> > Is your /var/mail group writable ? On a machine which went from 2.0 to
> > 2.1.x to 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 it was not group writable and I always had
> > that problem. I made a special temp dir for the pop users and 
> > changed qpopper to use it, instead of the /var/mail for it's tmp
> > files.

> Don't like the idea of /var/mail group writable.  I'll change
> qpopper to use /tmp I think.

Most systems I've worked with have had 'mail' as the group for the
/var/mail, and group mail is writable for /var/mail.  Files are all
deposited with rw owner only.


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