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- From: dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman)
- Subject: Re: Funny mail !
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.213957.1660@kopachuk.uucp>
- Organization: Tacoma Screw Products, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan7.092343.20412@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> <C0HqIE.Inn@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1993Jan7.174812.6883@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:39:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.174812.6883@leland.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
- >
- >It is a problem. On many systems, when a user deletes the last
- >piece of mail in his mailbox, the mail program unlinks the user's
- >entry in /usr/spool/mail. This, of course, is a disastrous
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >misfeature of these mail programs, but unfortunately, that is
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >how mail works on these systems. /usr/spool/mail should not be
- >world writeable.
- >
-
- Why?
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