Re: [Evolution] lock failed...

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

Hey, I listened and have never once said that we shouldn't have an
external movemail program :-)

Jeff

> No thats bullshit, mail dir permissions of 1777 are perfectly safe
> on multiuser systems.
>
> But some systems are a bit anal about "security" and make it 
> setgid mail, and some require setuid root permissions to set .locks.
>
> Anyway, I said eons ago we should have an external movemail progra
> but nobody listened.
>
> > The reason this failed as a normal user is because it doesn't have the
> > required permissions to create a file in /var/spool/mail/
> >
> > We are aware of this problem and we will probably need to write an external
> > movemail program that can be set setuid (you wouldn't want evolution to be
> > setuid ;-)
> >
> > A temp fix is to give your user access to create files there, but for a
> > multiuser system I wouldn't suggest it
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Frank Ramsay wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:12:40 -0400
> > > To: evolution helixcode com
> > > From: Frank Ramsay <fjr marsdome penguinpowered com>
> > > Subject: [Evolution] lock failed...
> > >
> > >
> > > I just downloaded the preview 2 of evolution and it looks pretty good,
> > > but when
> > > I try and check my mail with it I get the following error:
> > >
> > > Unable to move mail:
> > > Could not create lock file for /var/spool/mail/fjr: Permission denied
> > >
> > > This is a user account.  I also tried this using root and it worked fine.
> > > Has anyone else had this problem?  How do you get it to work for a user
> > > account.
> > >
> > >                           -fjr
> > >
> > >  -- 
> > > Frank J. Ramsay
> > > fjr marsdome penguinpowered com
> > >
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