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From: skp@sartax.saratov.su (Serge K. Polyakov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: smail 3.1.29.1 delivery problems
Date: 12 Aug 1996 13:50:37 +0400
Organization: State Tax Service of Saratov dist.
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Fair pay (fairpay@stoat.riga.lv) wrote:
  >  Hello,

  >  there are problems with mail delivery to local mail boxes by SMAIL 
  >  3.1.29.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.0 on local host.

  >  local transport was reconfigured to use mail.local, however this still
  >  causes mail to root to fail always.  If default smail local transport 
  >  is used, then this causes mail delivery to fail always for any users 
  >  on the system. This is related to file permission and locks somehow, 
  >  I suspect.

You can try to set up permissions on /var/mail: rwxrwxrwt (set sticky-bit)
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Serge Polyakov.
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