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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:39:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry <jerryr@ComCAT.COM>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pine inbox "Read Only"
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9811301536310.2702-100000@uw>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981201092326.24349C-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>

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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jerry wrote:
> 
> > I think I'm having a problem with pine, I went to the pine news group but
> > it doesn't look like its the most popular place on the net for help.
> > 
> > Anytime a user opens mail their inbox is "read only" except root.  The
> > permissions are right on /var/mail/"user" -rw------- in fact as a
> > regular user I can goto that file open it and modify it with no problem??
> 
> Pine requires write permission on /var/mail for a user. To do this,
> it's usually installed with setgid=mail (ie the owner of /var/mail)

I understand what your saying how pine needs write permissions, but do I
run that at the command line (setgid=mail)??  I understand how I go about
giving it to pine.  Thanks for your help!


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