Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d

[Jeff Vian]

Tim Alberts wrote:

>I've learned that if I set the /var/spool/mail folder permission to 777, I no 
>longer get the following error.
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>Mailbox Vulnerable - Directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
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>It seems odd that something requires worldwriteable access to the 
>/var/spool/mail folder.
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>However, the main problem persists that if I use kmail to retrieve email from 
>the pop3 server, the /var/spool/mail/user email file gets written with the 
>message:
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>>From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Apr 22 11:50:17 2004
>Date: 22 Apr 2004 11:50:17 -0700
>From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain>
>Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
>Message-ID: <1082659817 at localhost.localdomain>
>X-IMAP: 1082659816 0000000002
>Status: RO
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>This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
>a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
>If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
>with the data reset to initial values.
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>A few people have hinted that imapd writes this to a mail file to keep track 
>of which emails have been read.  How can this be happening if I have the 
>imapd disabled?
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This does not appear to be an imap feature per se.

When I use pine on my machine, and then look at the user mbox file with 
less I see the same.
On my current setup I am using mozilla to read mail from the user inbox, 
and store it in separate mbox folders for organizational purposes.  Each 
of those mboxes that mozilla created has exactly the same beginning header.

I believe it gets rewritten everytime you completely read all mail in 
the box so the pop/imap/?? server knows what date/time stamp to look at 
for deciding if the mail has previously been read or not.

At least mine gets updated with a new date/time each time I read 
something in the mbox.

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