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Re: movemail access problem

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From: Jeremy Primer
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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From: primer@zariski.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer)
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Subject: Re: movemail access problem
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Date: 6 Aug 90 23:56:21 GMT
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