On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Setting the sticky bit is standard practice in some operating system
> environments (we do it on some of our systems). There are several ways to
> achieve local mail delivery into individual user mailboxes in a common
> directory:
> (2) Set group=mail (or whatever) on the appendfile transport,
This is the route I chose. I'm loathe to mess with the default
installation settings if there's a nicer way to do it, and having exim run
as group 'mail' to do the file append seems the best way.
> (3) Turn off the use of lock files, thus avoiding the need to create
> files in the directory. This is not recommended [...] Personally, I
> would never risk this.
Understood. Thanks!
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