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From: meo@Dixie.Com (Miles ONeal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: I need ELM for my personal use
Message-ID: <7484@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 03:45:56 GMT
Organization: Systems & Software Solutions, Inc.
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rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) writes:

[regarding building/using your own copy of elm]

|One thing to watch out for in a situation like this is that elm (at least
|on most systems) needs to run setgid to the group that owns the mail
|spool directory and you will need non-ordinary permissions to install
|it properly.

Not necessarily. Many BSD-based systems, at least, have your mail
file owned by you. As long as you have rw for it, you are set. Worst
case is you set the variable that says don't delete an empty file,
and use unix mail to create the first message in it.

Outgoing mail in such cases is via one of the normal mail transport
agents (eg, sendmail) which takes care of any other files you care
about.

-Miles
meo@dixie.com
meo@sware.com