On Tuesday 23 April 2002 4:06 pm, you wrote: > Requirement: > I have one PC with mdk 8.2 linux with 3 users A,B and C. > All should have access to the mail retrieved from ISP's pop3 server and > should be able to send mail through ISP's SMTP server. > This is required because in the absence of one another can download mail > and send mail. However they shouldn't have access to other files of the > friends. > > What I made? > First I opened kmail in one of the users. This created the necessary files > in Mail folder of that user. > Then I made a folder Mail in /var/spool/ and copied the files created as > above. > I did chmod g+rws to /var/spool/Mail. > I created group Mail and made all the three members of that group. > I made all the files in /var/spool/Mail group rw. > > Problem > Now when the first user connects and downloads mail. OK. But Kmail now > changes the inbox permissions rw of that user only. group permissions are > removed. Once he replies/composes a mail and sends it outbox permission > also changes as above. Because of this other user can not download mail or > send any mail. How to avoid these changes? > If it can't be avoided how it can be rectified.(users are not expected to > do any comand line job or to run any other program)
How about running fetchmail as a daemon periodically polling the ISP mailbox and then handing over to procmail to replicate the mail into 3 mailboxes. Kmail can easily be configured to read mail from a local procmail mailbox. As for sending each user can send to the same smpt server using the same account name/password. There is a nice writeup on fetchmail/procmail at mandrakeuser.org and the man pages for fetchmail and procmail are very informative. HTH derek
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