RE: [vps-mail] how did this get through?

["Mark A. Sharkey" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:14:39PM -0500, Chris Edwards wrote:
> > > What kind of account is this? If this is a vps1, the 
> defaults should 
> > > be fine (i.e., it should always just work unless you've 
> locked down 
> > > the /var/mail directory or something like that).
> > 
> > Its a vps2.
> > -rw-rw----  1 root          mail  20842877 Jan 27 14:18 spam
> 
> Procmail will either need to be running as root to deliver 
> this (i.e., before the DROPPRIVS line in your procmailrc 
> file) OR you'll need to put the file in a location writable 
> by an unprivileged user (i.e., in each users home directory 
> would work:
> 
>     $HOME/spam
> 
> /tmp will probably also work.
> 

Or, chmod the file to 666.  Personally, I could care less if someone is
smart enough to figure out how to read my spam. ;-)

Mark



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