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

16 May 2008

      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?

Kind Regards,
Michael Krauss