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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
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- References: <1992Dec31.081635.28249@r-node.gts.org>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.200850.7799@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:08:50 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- Marc Fournier - Admin (marc@r-node.gts.org) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- This seems to be a bug in elm-2.3. I think it's fixed in elm-2.4, which I've
- been trying to get done and tested in time for a New Year's Day release
- of mailpak-1.4 - I obviously missed it. Soon, soon...
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
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