Closed Bug 139300 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

movemail requires write access to /var/spool/mail

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Movemail
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: swaldman, Assigned: adam)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

Is there any reason that movemail should require write access to the
/var/spool/mail directory? It will not work if it only has write access for the
mailbox file itself, but seems to require the permission for the directory.
Making this directory world-writable seems like a bad idea if it's not necessary...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
n/a
It needs write access to be able to create the
lock-file.

/var/spool/mail should have 0177 permissions just like /tmp.
-> WONTFIX
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Hardware: PC → All
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
*** Bug 180781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This should be written on the movemail page.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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