Re: tlug: Mutt-J questions

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com> writes:

    Chris> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

    >> Need to be running setgid 0 to lock mailbox!

    Chris> Unless I miss my mark, it claims that it needs to be setgid
    Chris> root in order to ensure exclusive access to
    Chris> /var/spool/mail/whatever. Methinks something got messed up
    Chris> during compile.

It _does_ need to be setgid <GID of /var/spool/mail> to write
lockfiles there.  Usual approach is to 

su
chown root.mail /var/spool/mail
chmod 0660 /var/spool/mail
for u in $USERLIST; do
 # if you're not group-per-user, the group here MUST NOT be mail
 chown $u.$u /var/spool/mail/$u
 # YMMV on the group permissions
 chmod 0660 /var/spool/mail/$u
done
exit

so my guess is that either ownership of /var/spool/mail is .root, or
the program doesn't check that and simply blindly says "Gimme root!"

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