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Started by James C. Luby
Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:08
Mailbox persmissions
Author: James C. Luby
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:08
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:08
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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? Thanks! Jim
Re: Mailbox persmissions
Author: Paul Lynch
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:12
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 -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
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