Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!kannel!kannel.lut.fi!kim From: kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Rmail Keywords: Rmail Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 89 13:50:16 GMT References: <416@sirius.ua.oz> Sender: news@kannel.lut.fi Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 34 In-reply-to: gtravan@sirius.ua.oz's message of 29 Jun 89 01:22:52 GMT In article <416@sirius.ua.oz> gtravan@sirius.ua.oz (George Travan) writes: From: gtravan@sirius.ua.oz (George Travan) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Keywords: Rmail Date: 29 Jun 89 01:22:52 GMT Organization: Computing Services, Uni of Adelaide, Australia Lines: 7 i've just noticed after installing emacs 18.52 that when i enter Rmail i get an error after it attempts to look at the spool. the error i get is: movemail error creating lock file? whats going on 'ere. --geo ACSnet: gtravan@sirius.ua.oz You haven't got access to your mail spool directory. You should either add write access to the world (other) for that directory or install movemail as setgid with group mail. Problem with the first solution is that anyone can now remove another person's incoming mail file. Problem with the second solution is that anyone can read someone else's mail by setting the incoming mailbox variable in Emacs (at least I think it's possible that way - I haven't tried). I solved the problem with setgid and try to trust our users ;-) Kim -- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ( Kimmo Suominen Electronic Mail on Internet: kim@kannel.lut.fi ) ( "That's what I think!" on Funet: KUULA::KIM ) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''