[tpop3d-discuss] problem with dotfile locking

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:17:34 +0100


On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:19:48PM +0800, Haris Hudji wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:03:20PM +0800, Haris Hudji wrote:

> > > auth-pam-mail-group: users
                           ^^^^^
> > > auth-pam-mail-user: mail

> $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         4096 Sep 10 16:33 /var/spool/mail

yeah. Either you should make /var/spool/mail 1777, or have
tpop3d collect mail as group mail, or switch off dotfile
locking.

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