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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!ucthpx!not-for-mail From: smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (S Marquard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:34:13 +0200 Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3r3oa5$62n@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <3r29u3$9vm@Mars.mcs.com> chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes: >I'm having troubles with smail-3.1.29.1 I get permission denied >errors when trying to lock the mailbox before appending to it on local >delivery. >My mailbox is empty (doesn't exist before startup) so smail should >create it. >The permissions on my /var/mail directory are 755 bin bin. You need to use the pipe driver to deliver mail through /usr/libexec/mail.local instead of using smail's appendfile driver. This needs to be set in /usr/local/lib/smail/routers I think; email me for details of a working setup. 755 works fine. 777 is definitely a security hole, and I believe 1777 isn't ideal either. Regards Stephen