Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:59:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hdalog@zipnet.net Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <199604102059.NAA02369@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604101200.IAA01416@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Apr 10, 96 08:00:04 am
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> > login: fred > > passord: > > % > > % ls -l /var/mail/peter > > % ls: /var/mail/peter: No such file or directory > > % cat > /var/mail/peter > > > > That was the end of Terry's message. > > Did this totally confuse anyone elses mailer? I see these two > messages in elm: > > > 1 Apr 10 Bite Me (13) Ha ha > > 2 Apr 10 Terry Lambert (41) Re: /var/mail default permissions?? > > and have this in my in box: > > > From dufault Wed Apr 10 07:34:25 1996 > > From: anon@anon (Bite Me) > > Subject: Ha ha > > Status: OR > > > > Don't you wish you could do something about your mail... give > > Fred $5 and he'll unlock it for you. > > > > -- Anon > > > > ^D > > % exit > > which threw me for a loop a minute. I don't think this is what > Terry was showing us. Hee hee hee. Your mail rewriting rules are broken. What an amusing side effect... detecting broken mail rewriting rules. A recursive object lesson... I couldn't have planned this better on purpose. I was showing how "Fred" could lock Peter's mailbox if Peter didn't have any pending mail and the mail dir were 1777 as Peter was suggesting. Fred would own the mail file "peter" and Peter couldn't delete it. Fred could (and was offering to do so for $5)... Obviously, your mailer should have put ">" in front of the naked "From" in the sample "Fred locked Peter's mailbox" message, and didn't. 8-). Are you, by any chance, using the Elm "filter" program and appending directly to a mailbox instead of processing through a sed script to rewrite all froms after the first "From" into ">From"? This would result in what you saw (though I think the date on the lock message should be April 1st, so I can tell even more about how you are forwarding mail through an intermediate account 8-)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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