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- From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
- Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.081635.28249@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
- References: <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu> <1992Dec29.192809.776@sol.UVic.CA> <1992Dec30.211716.26372@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:16:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.211716.26372@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- The problem, though, seems to be that if you don't create the
- mailbox in the adduser script, that the first email that is received
- will do so...but not being owned by the user who owns the mailbox.
- Why, I don't know. I have it running right now, and it is setGID to
- mail...and still gives the problem...yup, just checked to make sure.
-
- Marc
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