Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Keywords: newmail console bug
Message-ID: <4753@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 89 18:21:24 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <316@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
+The newmail program displays its output not only on the users terminal,
+but on the system console, for all users using newmail.  They do not
+need to be logged in on the console for this to happen.  We consider
+this a security/privacy violation.  We are using a Sun 3/260 running 
+SunOS 4.0.1.

I have been using newmail extensively and have not experienced this at all.
What is strange is that the word "console" does not appear in the source
for newmail at all.
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