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

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/5/16 Michael Krauss <hippodriver at gmx.net>:
> Hello,
>
> while testing dma (Mail Transfer Agent from DragonflyBSD) on Arch Linux
> I stumbled on this:
>
> [mickraus at 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)