Author: Wayne Pascoe Date: To: Richard Welty CC: Exim Users Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim-3.32 on FreeBSD
Richard Welty <rwelty@???> writes:
> you can't just use the sticky bit by itself, you have to also provide
> the write permissions, whether you like it or not.
>
> the alternative, games with user/group ownership, causes problems with
> some MUAs. my confusion set in because i've been administering a small
> host where the bulk of the users are coming in through the same pop3
> interface, with little or no use of MUAs local to the host, which is
> much simpler than having to make every possible MUA in the universe
> happy with the configuration of the mail spool directory (this latter
> being the type of environment i've not had to administrate for ages).
>
> again, the choices are to run with 1777 and take the risk, or trim
> down user/group permissions and listen to minor complaints from users.
On most of my servers I run 771 on /var/mail and it is owned by
mail:mail
Exim delivers as user = ${local_part}, group = mail
All users need on the directory to be able to read files owned by them
within the directory is execute permissions.
