Re: Mailbox persmissions

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From: Paul Lynch
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:12

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In article <1992Oct15.000850.26640@u.washington.edu>  
jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby) writes:
> I've seen a number of articles recently talking about the fact NeXT  
apparently  
> has set the wrong file permissons on the template Mailboxes directories.   
Would  
> someone please post what they think the permissions should be?  For  
instance,  
> it seems reasonable that read permission by others should not be set but  
does  
> one need write or execute permisson by others so they can send you mail?   

You need both read and write permission for yourself; execute permission  
probably also (for the directory).  No one else needs any permissions  
whatsoever.  Note that Mail.app wants write permission before allowing you  
to read any mail from a Mailbox (to update the table.of.contents 'read'  
flag).  This is in addition to pulling incoming mail from /usr/spool/mail  
into the Active.mailbox.

Paul
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