Subject: Re: Attributes of mailbox change by procmail?

From: [email-masked] (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 13:55:31 +0100

Igor Chudov wrote:
>My mailbox normally has the following permissions:

>-rw-rw----   1 ichudov  mail        1300 Oct 11 10:52 /usr/spool/mail/ichudov

>but if I mention procmail in the .forward file, after any messages arrive,
>my mailbox becomes only -rw-------. No mail can come in after that.

Are you sure this prevents mail from arriving?

In any case, the solution (which should go in the FAQ or something, yes)
is to: chmod 0760 /usr/spool/mail/ichudov

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