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From: think!compass!worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley)
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Subject: etc/movemail
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Date: 4 May 89 15:50:36 GMT
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   If I'm on a system where I don't have root access and I have my own
   copy of emacs and /usr/spool/mail is mode 0775 and I'm not in the
   group that it's owned by, then movemail bombs because it tries to
   create a lock file in /usr/spool/mail.

Isn't the correct way to handle this to set movemail suid (or sgid) to
the proper user/group?

Dale