[ILUG] Mailbox Vulnerable warning

[John Kelly]

The only time I've gotten this is with OpenBSD.  I never bothered fixing
the problem, because I switched to mutt shortly after.  I did read
something about it in the pine FAQ though...

http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#xtocid634146

Reading this, I guess the second part of your question *is* related to
the first, but I've only begun to start looking at procmail, so I dunno.

- John

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Garth Fitzmaurice wrote:

> 
>  Hello,
> 
>  I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me how to fix this: When
> I run pine, it greets me with the warning: "Mailbox vulnerable, Directory
> /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protetion".
> 
>  The /var/spool/mail directory is owned by root, group mail, with 0755
> permissions. Each file in the directory (Mailboxes), is owned by the
> respective user, group mail, with 0600 as the permissions. I don't
> understand why pine sees the mailboxes as vulnerable. How are they?
> 
>  On another mail problem, I've noticed in the procmail logs
> $HOME/.procmail/log, that procmail fails create locks. Is this related to
> the first problem?
> 
>  I don't really understand it all. Thanks for helping,
>     Garth