Re: Local delivery problems on FreeBSD

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Author: Philip Crewdson
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To: Martin Cooper
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Local delivery problems on FreeBSD
Thanks for this. It looks nice and neat.

(I wonder where you set the group id.) %-/

Philip


>I dealt with this by creating a mail group (distinct from the exim
>group), and setting the directory permissions and ownership on /var/mail
>as follows:
>
>drwxrwxr-x 2 exim mail 512 Nov 28 02:01 /var/mail
>
>and then making local deliveries happen as the owner of the mailbox,
>and the group 'mail', which then allows only the 'exim' user and the
>'mail' group to create/delete/rename spool files in /var/mail, but
>neither to read them, since the permissions are rw------- with ownership
>being owner of mailbox:group 'mail'.
>
>Martin
>--
>Martin Cooper
>Work <mjc@???> | Personal <mjc@???>




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