I think I miss interpreted original poster's message. Vector send me a following message. I hope this solves your problem.
> I'm replying to you off-list because I don't want this email address > spammed to carnation. procmail will change the permissions on a > mailbox when it delivers mail if it thinks they are 'dangerous'. This > can be avoided by making the user rwx instead of just rw on the > mailbox file. Procmail will then leave group permissions alone and > they will stay to whatever permissions you set. Osamu On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:40:00PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > This seems to be issue of install script. You should be able to avoid > > it by modifying post/pre install script. > > > > You seem to use sendmail. Then file a bug to sendmail if this is their > > fault. I think what they do is reasonable since script does not know > > who should be the owner. > > Sigh... Sendmail is a MTA - it doesn't touch user mailboxes ! It'd be > no use filing bugs against it... OOPs! But I said "if...". just to cover my ... > Procmail is the MDA beast that issued the message. Yep. It seems. > Check for other MDAs (mail,mailx,etc) and cronjobs to see what is > changing the mode -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
