From: wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) Subject: Re: [Q] Linux/SLS "mail" is too smart for its own good Date: 18 Apr 1993 15:04:30 GMT
I had one other Problem with /bin/mail
If I mailed a mail to a user & ther was no /usr/spool/mail/user available
it creates one with the ownership of the SENDER. I used several permssion
settings.
/bin/mail is set root.mail and with -rwsr-sr-x
-> Mailfile was SENDER.mail
How can the above be fixed othere then creating for each user an emty Mailfile ?
BTW with smail you can get smail istall a /bin/mail (moving the old one to
/bin/lmail ) and uses just for reading mail the /bin/lmail and for sending
the /bin/mail, which interacts with /usr/lib/sendmail (linked to smail)
Gruss
Wolfgang