[ On Thu, November 28, 1996 at 11:58:23 (+1300), Michael Robinson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Local delivery problems on FreeBSD
>
> For BSD4.4 systems, I seem to recall the proper protocol for delivery into
> /var/mail involves flock(). And /var/mail should be mode 1777 (sticky bit,
> world writable).
Hmm... well, on NetBSD all the delivered software uses *.lock style
locking only, and I think you can get by with mode 555 on /var/mail.
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