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- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.211716.26372@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:17:16 GMT
- References: <marcf.725421090@yorku.ca> <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu> <1992Dec29.192809.776@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
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- pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
-
- >In article <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu> dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry) writes:
- >>In article <marcf.725421090@yorku.ca>, marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >>|> I just sent user from my account to another, and I am now
- >>|> the owner of his mail folder.
- >>|>
- >>
- >>I'm having the same problem, also after "fooling around". Specifically,
- >>I moved several binaries between /bin and /etc/bin (after copying both
- >>directories to a safe place in case I broke something). Mail broke,
- >>so I restored the saved directories. Mail's still broke as Marc described.
- >>
-
- >to set up user1 for mail try
-
- > touch /usr/spool/mail/user1
- > chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/user1
- > chown user1 /usr/spool/mail/user1
-
- >Someday soon, a real adduser script will be crafted, to do this.
- >Do not use the old adduser. Discard it now.
-
- My experience with Elm says that it should run setGID mail and that
- the user mailboxes should be owned by 'theusername' and be group 'mail'.
-
- You do not have to create the mailbox as part of an adduser script.
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