From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 01/02/93


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:08:50 GMT

Marc Fournier - Admin (marc@r-node.gts.org) wrote:

: In article <1992Dec30.211716.26372@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
: >
: >My experience with Elm says that it should run setGID mail and that
: >the user mailboxes should be owned by 'theusername' and be group 'mail'.
: >
: >You do not have to create the mailbox as part of an adduser script.
:
: The problem, though, seems to be that if you don't create the
: mailbox in the adduser script, that the first email that is received
: will do so...but not being owned by the user who owns the mailbox.
: Why, I don't know. I have it running right now, and it is setGID to
: mail...and still gives the problem...yup, just checked to make sure.

This seems to be a bug in elm-2.3. I think it's fixed in elm-2.4, which I've
been trying to get done and tested in time for a New Year's Day release
of mailpak-1.4 - I obviously missed it. Soon, soon...

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and the world will follow our lead into the future.  --Adolf Hitler