Subject: Re: Permissions being changed on my mail file???

From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:41:16 +0200

> I have installed a new version of procmail (procmail v3.10 1994/10/31)
> and it is changing the permissions on my /usr/mail/kahn file to
> rw------- from what it was (rw-rw----).

procmail assumes you accidentally created the mailbox with umask 7.
chmod u+x it and procmail will leave it untouched.