On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > You should set there whatever is standard on your operating system. Some
> > operating systems call it /var/spool/mail. You normally need to set the
> > "sticky bit" (the "t" bit) on shared mail directories like this. We have
>
> > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 212992 Apr 27 15:16 /var/mail/
>
> Just as a point of interest, why do you set /var/mail as world-writable?
> I'm sure our version of Cops would yuk at this, ours is 1770 and all
> works perfectly, alway has.
Presumably you run local deliveries under some specific mail group? For
systems that do not, the alternative is "world writeable, sticky bit
set". Just like /tmp, in fact.
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