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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
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Date: 15 Mar 90 17:11:21 GMT
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   In other words...a "chown <username> /usr/spool/mail/<username>" needs to be
   executed for each user mailbox that exists. 

   Is sendmail supposed to do this for you?

No, sendmail does not even know about local mailboxes.  It usually
invokes /bin/mail to deliver local mail - and /bin/mail does indeed
set the ownership of user mailboxes properly, at least it does at our
site.  I believe /bin/mail must have suid root - like this:

% ls -l /bin/mail
-rwsr-xr-x   2 root        13889 Sep 14  1989 /bin/mail*

Could that be the source of your problem?

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim
  NORWAY