On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Mark Crispin wrote:
Note that .lock file locking requires either that the spool directory be protected 1777 (the recommended setting) or that the mlock program (part of the UW IMAP toolkit) be deployed. By default, many systems have neither; this in turn means that .lock file locking is disabled. There is a warning ("Mailbox vulnerable") when this happens, but some third-party redistributions delete this warning in the incorrect assumption that it is "unnecessary".
What about the case where the mail spool is in the user's home directory (which may/may not) be mounted via NFS? Will dotlocking work for that?
Also, is there a primer as to all this somewhere? -Dan -- "Goodbye my peoples. I'll miss each one of you. Sniff-Sniff I now know the true meaning of love. Thank you Sniff-Sniff. You are all in my heart." -Chris D. --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --------------------------- _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
