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From: blue@altger.UUCP (blue)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Bug in mail
Keywords: bugs
Message-ID: <1215@altger.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 20:20:16 GMT
Organization: Altos Computer Systems Munich
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I noticed that on many Sys V systems, /usr/spool/mail is left
writable while contained mails are not readable~r .
Well, this solves  the problem of privacy, since on many systems
while you run a sub shell from the mail (read) command you
get mail privileges .
Now, suppose i want to read other's mail.
I can't now. All i can do is delete or write on their mailbox.
I could remove the whole spool dir, but no way of reading.
What about writing the "Forward to" inside those nice files?

Is there a way of disabling such option?
Anyway, this does not work on my xenix.
It should, however, on Altos.

so everyone can read other's mail. Great.


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Mr. BlueBoy, DTE222
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