** Changed in: archivemail (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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"Permission Denied" when archiving from /var/mail directory
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I'm seeing this too. Lets say I have a user called jeff. If I'm
logged in as root, running archivemail -o /home/jeff/archive
/var/mail/jeff fails with the permission denied error. The archivemail
manpage says that when archivemail runs as root, the first thing it does
is setuid to the owner of
** Changed in: archivemail (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Invalid
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"Permission Denied" when archiving from /var/mail directory
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> When I use the ArchiveMail as a single user (not root) it works fine.
> I created a script for the ROOT user run several tasks to archive my
> old email. In this case the archivemail runs ok, but change the user
> permission and the mailbox's owner didn't access that file.
I'm sorry, but I don'
When I use the ArchiveMail as a single user (not root) it works fine. I
created a script for the ROOT user run several tasks to archive my old
email. In this case the archivemail runs ok, but change the user
permission and the mailbox's owner didn't access that file. I dont
remember all details bec
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Could you please indicate the steps to reproduce this
issue? Thanks in advance.
** Changed in: archivemail (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
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"Permission Denied" when archiving from /var/mail directory
** Attachment added: "Suggested Patch"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8071299/archivemail-0.7.0-1.patch.tar.gz
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: archivemail
Version 7.0.1-1 (Feisty)
Severity: Lowest
When a root user archive MBOX file in /var/mail causes a error:
"Per
