> I'm getting an interesting message in Pine:
>
> "Folder vulnerable - Directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection"
>
> Any ideas? I do have an imap/pop server running (v. 2002d of the
> Washington U. imapd) and from when this started appearing I assume it has
> something to do with that.
Looks like a permission value to me (chmod 1777 blah), but I'm not quite
sure why you'd *want* /var/spool/mail to have those permissions. Maybe
it's warning you that it's world-readable?
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