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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Pine problems
Date: 12 Jul 1994 17:15:36 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network
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Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net) wrote:
: In article <2vqn7o$2tn@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM>,
: Sherman Mui <smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM> wrote:
: > over and over. Mail to an alias to root also work. My friend told me to
: > check the permissions on the spool directories and mail dirs. Well, they
: > look alright, rw for owner and group.
: If your mailer is not setgid-mail and your spool directory is not 775 like
: that :
: drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Jul 11 21:03 /var/mail/
: Then no one except root can write in it. Either you put your spool
: directory with 1777 (BAD !) or you change Pine to behave with a setgid bit
: to mail.
: But maybe Pine won't allow that (I don't run it) so you'll have to check
: Pine sources and READMEs.
Ok, I just made all those changes (had to make a 'mail' group). I don't
think it's working... Oh well, time to go through those docs again. Thanks,
Sherman
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