Date:  Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:44:57 +0200
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:10142] Re: Miachael's mail permissions fix
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Hugh,

> I had to make a slight change to your script to work with openwebmail.  You
> are setting perms the 'mail' directory to 600.  This seems to upset
> openwebmail, which barfs about not being able to get locks on files.
> Presumably because it can't bypass traverse checking and needs to be able
> to stat the directory.
>
> I changed it to set 700 (so 'x' is set), and that seems to make openwebmail
> happy.

Hmm. Interesting. My OpenWebmail runs fine with 600 permissions on the mail 
directory, but thanks for the info, I'll keep that in mind.


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With best regards,

Michael Stauber
http://www.solarspeed.net