[2521] in RedHat Linux List
Re: ELM Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Block)
Sun Nov 3 22:54:53 1996
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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:40:05 -0500
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From: Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
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At 8:16 PM -0500 11/3/96, James Cook wrote:
>> James> For some odd reason, ELM today decided that for my user account,
>> James> mail was always going to be received. So every time I launch
>> James> ELM it comes up with that message "Waiting for mail to be
>> James> received" and times out after 7 seconds. The problem is I'm not
>> James> receiving anything there. :/ Why for?
>>
>> Did you, perchance, configure ELM for POP?
>
>Nope. Actually, the problem turned out to be permission problems on the
>/var/spool/mail directory. They were set to 755. I changed them to 777
>and the problem went away. Is this proper?
No.
It should be 775, user root, group mail. At least that's what my 3.0.3 and
4.0 systems have.
If you make it 777, any random person can delete anyone else's mailbox.
Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
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