Subject: re: Locking change problem...

From: Bobby Ezell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:32:43 -0700 (PDT)

No, the problem is definitely sendmail (I've tested it with mail and mailx
with similar results), but somehow before the install of the new pine and
the 4.02 patch install, the problem seems to have not been happening. No
with is. No changes were made by anyone here to sendmail except for the
change of the spool directory with 1777 as the instructions call for.
Could this have been the culprit (I don't see how)?

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:39:26 -0700 (PDT), Bobby Ezell wrote:
> > In prior Pine, we had one shared folder for company-directed e-mail and
> > then private, individual folders for all else. The company folder was with
> > a common group id and permissions set to g+rw. We recently went to 4.02
> > and the changes in locking seems to not allow this to work (whenever
> > sendmail receives mail to the company folder, it changes it to g-rw).
> 
> Pine doesn't change protections on folders.  I use Pine in just the sort of
> environment that you describe
> 

> Did you change sendmail or the mail delivery program used by sendmail
> recently?  I think that the mail delivery program is to blame, perhaps as a
> well-intentioned "security" measure.
> 

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From: Bobby Ezell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:03:42 -0700 (PDT)

I was able to fix the problem, I think. In an obscure man page for
procmail, there was talk of similar problems taking place under mailing
daemons and the recommendation was to set u+x for the file permissions in
question in the /var/spool/mail directory. This actually seems to have
worked though I am not sure why or whether it presents other problems.

Thanks for the help.

Bobby Ezell--

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Mark Crispin wrote:

> The best that I can guess is that perhaps your mail delivery program (not
> actually sendmail, but a program that sendmail calls) has a well-intentioned
> code section that does something different for 1777 spool directories.
> 
> Is the shared mailbox on the spool directory?  What happens if it is on some
> other directory?
> 
> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:32:43 -0700 (PDT), Bobby Ezell wrote: