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
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