Problem with Fedora1 and ipop3d

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 23.04.2004 schrieb Tim Alberts um 00:09:

> I've learned that if I set the /var/spool/mail folder permission to 777, I no 
> longer get the following error.
> 
> Mailbox Vulnerable - Directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
> 
> It seems odd that something requires worldwriteable access to the 
> /var/spool/mail folder.

Then you are doing something wrong. Indeed it is an odd permissions
setting.

> 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:
> 
> >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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?

X-IMAP: 1082659816 0000000002

Looks for me that imap is running.

But what is the problem with that entry? It does no harm, it does not
interfere with POP3 access. About what are you complaining? It is only a
problem if you delete the entry. But that is clearly stated in the
message.

The only thing you will have to check is whether something is requesting
for wrong permissions of /var/spool/mail.

Alexander


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