[tpop3d-discuss] problem with dotfile locking

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Chris Lightfoot <chris@ex-parrot.com> [20030910 11:00]: wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:03:20PM +0800, Haris Hudji wrote:
> > auth-pam-mail-group: users
> > auth-pam-mail-user: mail
> > 
> > and the output of 'ls -l /var/spool/mail/test':
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 mail     users        1249 Sep  4 14:23 /var/spool/mail/test
> > 
> > 8 is uid number of mail and 100 is gid number of users. No other program is
> > accessing test mailbox. If I recompile with --disable-dotfile-lock the
> > problem is gone. Server is running linux redhat 6.2

I used to have this problem long ago when I was delivering mail to mboxes.
I did not stop to think about configuring with --disable-dotfile-lock. maybe
I could have tried that! The mail was delivered to /var/mail/$(user) for
system accounts and /var/spool/virtual/$(domains)/$(user) and the permissions
on the /var/mail was 1777. I don't remember what it was on /var/spool/virtual/$(domain)
since this was owned by the MTA user only.

Now I use Maildir delivery but I am still curious to know if there would be no
consequence for the mboxes if you compile with --disable-dotfile-lock.



        cheers
       - wash 
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