Re: [arch-general] strange access permissions in /var/spool/mail

2008/5/16 Michael Krauss <hippodriver@gmx.net>:

Hello,

while testing dma (Mail Transfer Agent from DragonflyBSD) on Arch Linux I stumbled on this:

[mickraus@gandalf mickraus]\$ ls -la /var/spool/mail insgesamt 12 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 16. Mai 15:11 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 16. Mai 15:26 .. ---------- 1 mickraus users 201 16. Mai 15:11 mickraus

Is it normal that a user has no access to his own mail box? I looked into postfix.install but it doesn't correct the file mode either. So what is the trick?

The mickraus directory is created by postfix, I suppose, so it must be either a postfix's issue or just a configuration issue. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)