Mail delivery problem on my server

[William Park]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:08:00PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> At 11:22 AM 10/30/2003 -0500, Madison wrote:
> >  The only other thing I have noticed is that, for some reason, some of 
> >the mail account spool files on the server have the group "mail" set 
> >where most of the others have both owner AND group set to their 
> >name/group. Finally, a couple other accounts had been changed to 
> >permission -rw------- (0600) where most again where -rw-rw---- (0660). I 
> >tried changing my own 'mkelly' file to owner/group mkelly and setting the 
> >permissions back to 0660 but the message still bounced.
> 
> I just checked the settings/permissions on a SunOS box I have access to 
> since I don't run Sendmail on Linux anymore. The directory which contains 
> the files with the received mail has settings of 755 and chown of root.mail 
> while the files in the directory are all 660 and chown'ed <user>.mail where 
> <user> is a user ID as listed in /etc/passwd.

Same on my Slackware,
    /var/spool/mail		-- 1777 root:mail
    /var/spool/mail/*		-- 660 user:mail
    /var/spool/mail/root	-- 600 root:mail

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