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Hello Timo, I'm using linux Fedora Core 2. The permissions are : drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 32 2004-06-16 04:45 /var/spool/mail/ These permissions are made buy the command chmod a+rwxt /var/spool/mail. So if someone wants to erase the /var/spool/mail directory, it's possible unfortunately. If there are theses permissions the user can receive his mails but it's dangerous I think. And if I modify the dovecot.conf file : mail_extra_groups = mail and if the permissions ar...

Hello all, I'm a new user of dovecot and I've got a permission denied problem. I've read the VarMailDotLock wiki paper but there is still a security problem. If I enter : chmod a+rwxt /var/spool/mail it works but I think it's very dangerous to have thaht rights. So I've tried to edit the dovecot.conf file and to change the mail_extra_groups = mail and to change the rights : chmod +t /var/spool/mail but it doesn't work ! The mails are in /var/spool/mail/unix_user_...

Hello Linux/Samba folks, am new on Linux/Samba and in dying need of help. From the error message: insufficient permissions to open spool file /var/spool/samba/smbprn.000016.jp8nNO. Here is a copy of my smb.conf: In most cases, i have edited my smb.conf using the root console screen and added/edited printers thru YaST2. [global] workgroup = ARBEITSGRP netbios name = SAMBA interfaces =