> > 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?
The current permissions:
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 72 Feb 10 17:59 mail/
However, '1777' is not a valid permission (they are only supposed to be
three digits, correct; owner, group, rest of world?), unless the '1' means
'directory'.
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