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- qmail was designed with security in mind and is paranoid. It will not deliver
- mail to a user who has a home directory which is group or world writable or
- is owned by another user. The same goes for .qmail files.
-
- To fix permission problems (replace "foobar" with the name of the file or
- directory):
-
- With a recent version of C:Protect:
- Protect foobar GROUPFLAGS -WD OTHERFLAGS -WD
-
- With GNU fileutils:
- chmod og-w foobar
-
- With just the "utils" drawer utilities:
- minichmod 00Fxy foobar
-
- where x,y should be 0, 2, 8 or A, depending on how much access you'd like
- other users to have.
-
- To fix ownership problems:
-
- With GNU fileutils:
- chown username foobar
-
- With just the "utils" drawer utilities:
- minichown username foobar
-
- User home directories that reside in the root of a volume are not supported.
- If mail for such a user arrives, it will be (attempted) delivered to
- alias-username.
-