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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm and SCO Unix using MMDF
Message-ID: <2325@polari.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 05:05:21 GMT
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In article <1990Aug8.014440.18541@lethe.uucp> drew@lethe.uucp (Drew Sullivan) writes:
|change a whole lot of directories
|from 700 to 707 (yes 707, rwx---rwx)  It look strange but that is
|what it took to get it to work.

That may be fine for some systems, but I don't want everyone in the known
universe to be able to muck with my mail queues.  I use
/usr/lib/mail/execmail, and it seems to work fine, with rn, Bnews, and
elm, with no nasty permission changes.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP