Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!think!think.com From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Rmail Keywords: Rmail Message-ID: <23253@news.Think.COM> Date: 30 Jun 89 13:53:48 GMT References: <416@sirius.ua.oz> Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 14 In-reply-to: kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) In article , kim@kannel (Kimmo Suominen) writes: ]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). No, it shouldn't be possible. The individual spool files are normally set 600, so only the owner can read or write them. It doesn't prevent anyone who has access to the directory from stat'ing them, though, but movemail doesn't have any way to print out the stats coded into it. -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111