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Article #99514Re: movemail access problem
From: Jeremy Primer
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 23:56
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 23:56
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Movemail has been thoroughly documented and discussed. From the file PROBLEMS in the distribution: If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as `mail'. Additional unusual forms of security in the mail system, including one we are running under SunOS here, occasionally require modifying the code to movemail.c as well. There is no way the Emacs documentation can or should cover all of the oddball security regimens which may turn up. Every sysadmin should take individual responsibility for understanding these aspects of his or her system. -- Jeremy Primer, Department of Mathematics, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 primer@math.harvard.edu ...!harvard!zariski!primer primer@zariski.bitnet
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,9d8b3f77e3b50508 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-06 21:38:27 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!husc6!primer From: primer@zariski.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: movemail access problem Message-ID: <PRIMER.90Aug6195621@zariski.harvard.edu> Date: 6 Aug 90 23:56:21 GMT References: <9008022133.AA23364@pyrmisdev.pyramid.com> <SHIRONO.90Aug3131616@gcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Harvard Math Department Lines: 17 Posted: Tue Aug 7 00:56:21 1990 In-reply-to: shirono@ssd.csd.harris.com's message of 3 Aug 90 17:16:16 GMT