On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:20:16PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > The perception of a possible permissions problem is bogus. If you don't > have permission in that directory to create the tmp mailbox, then you > probably didn't have permission to blast over the original mailbox > either.
It is very likely. Allowing to create files in the spooldir of a mbox style spool means you are able to actually fake or dos other's mail receiving. It is prefered to have only write access to you own mailbox. Normally a trusted application is granted more access by running it sgid mail. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!