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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!wonge
- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.133518.7411@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Dec31.083623.28576@r-node.gts.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:35:18 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <1992Dec31.083623.28576@r-node.gts.org> marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
- >Hi...
- >
- > There is a now known problem with email, where if you do not
- >create the mailbox when you create the user id, the mailbox ownership
- >gets screwed up.
- >
- >
- [irrelevant info deleted.. also reason is I don't know anything 'bout
- Smail..etc.]
-
- > I myself am at a loss for ideas...I've checked all the
- >permissions and ownerships and nothing seems 'out of place'...except
- >that it doesn't 'chown username /usr/spool/mail/username' after it
- >creates the folder.
- >
- >Anyone?
-
- Actually.. I have no idea.. I had to RE-INSTALL my whole system,
- and like other than the TCP/IP crap that I haven't managed to figure
- out(after ALL these weeks...*sigh* and all the information I've been
- given..I'm still stubborn as hell...ie. lost still..) Anyway,
- back to the situation here. I ACTUALLY got elm working for non-root
- users, but like, since I re-installed the stuff, I've completely
- forgotten what I did... and quite frankly, I AIN'T 'chown username
- /usr/spool/mail/username' manually FOR everyone.. sheesh... I might
- as well not permit anyone to send mail.. <grin>
-
- All the permissions are like, ok, from my stand point.. but
- for elm's, it's a totally different matter.. in fact, as a non-root
- user, if I did a 'elm -z', it would give me a "You have no permission
- to read /usr/spool/mail/wonge". <whatta redundant statement..>
-
- HOWEVER, besides disallowing your users send mail, like I suggested,
- you could always revert to 'mail'...which, for some reason, WORKS..
-
- Hmm... wierd..eh? It doesn't work with elm, but it works for mail..
-
- ISN'T this wierd???
-
- Or am I just hallucinating everything???
-
- btw.. Happy New Year..
-
-
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