Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3 - What is the correct permissions on /var/spool/mail/*

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 04:59  PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> I noticed a bunch of these appear in our maillog while I was installing 
> the
> patches to our OS 6.4 Qube3 professional. It did it for a bunch of users
> but then has stopped.
>
> Mar  4 10:55:14 mail procmail[1795]: Enforcing stricter permissions on
> "/var/spool/mail/<username>"
>
> It was changing them from 660 -rw-rw---- to 600 -rw-------

> PS Everything is working fine - it's just a little strange that it started
> doing it then decided to stop - the message occurs as part of a delivery 
> of
> inbound mail (from an outside domain) because you can see the subsequent
> <from> style message line.

Procmail is picky about permissions. One of the chronic new-user problems 
with procmail is overly-liberal (in procmail's opinion) permissions on 
configuration files. I didn't know it was doing the fixes itself, though. 
:-)

All the user mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/<user>) on our Qube3 are 600 
(except Sanitizer's "quarantine" mailbox, which isn't really a user and 
belongs to admin.) I'm not sure if procmail changed them or if they 
shipped that way. Maybe your sendmail patch changed them to 660? (Not 
likely, all of mine are changed and some haven't had mail since I patched.
 And I think we used the same patch.)

Probably procmail hasn't changed them all because it hasn't had to deliver 
mail to all your users yet?

pjm