Re: [Exim] mail spool permissions...

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 02:32:05AM +0100, Philipp Gaschütz wrote:

> I had a problem with delivering mail...
> No Permissions: creating lock file hitching post
> /var/spool/mail/<USERNAME>.lock........
>
> after doing chmod o+w on /var/spool/mail everything worked again...
> but, ...in my opinion its not a good thing to have write permissions for
> everyone set on the spool directory, isn't it?

If /var/spool/mail has group write permission for the group mail, then
you can set the 'group = mail' config in the local_delivery director and
do chmod o-w /var/spool/mail.

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