On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:57:06 +1000 (EST) Paul Matthews
<paul(_dot_)matthews(_at_)cathedral(_dot_)qld(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au> wrote:
here is an output of my /var/spool/mail/ folder the permissions are right,
they are not links, what else would this be?
2516 -rwx------ 1 woolleyd Domain Users 2568357 May 31 08:02
/var/spool/mail/woolleyd
0 -rwx------ 2 wrayk Domain Users 0 May 30 09:35
/var/spool/mail/wrayk
An output using what? Here is mine using:
ls -lsA /var/spool/mail
total 444
444 -rw-rw---- 1 gvl2 mail 448278 Oct 17 2005 gvl2
I'm wondering what the heck that "Domain Users" stuff is on yours. Mine is
all owned by the username "gvl2" with group "mail" so the mail server user
can write to it. Writeable by the owner and group only.
And why are they listed as "x"? /var/spool/mail/{username} should be an
mbox FILE, not a directory.
Now, on my system /var/spool/mail/{username} is only a "OH SHIT SOMETHING
BROKE!" fallback. My mail server (Exim 3.3x) hands off to procmail and
procmail delivers to ~/Maildir/... in Maildir format. The 448K that's in
/var/spool/mail/gvl2 is a few messages generated by the local system when
it couldn't figure out how to feed it to my Exim mail server (on a
non-standard port).
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY
This electronic email message is intended only for the addressee and may
contain confidential information. If you are not the addressee, you are
notified that any transmission, distribution or photocopying of this email
is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this email is not
waived, lost or destroyed by reasons of a mistaken delivery to you.
HAHAHA <SNORT> HAHAHA <SNORT>
If it landed in my mailbox then I *AM* the addressee and can do whatever I
see fit with the message. If it were not addressed to me I would never have
received it.
The disclaimer is not worth the electrons used to transmit it and removing
it could reduce your server's overall daily output by a considerable
amount.
If people in your organization habitually send mail to people who should
not see it then you need to start firing people. Email is the same as paper
mail. If you write MY name and address on an envelope then put a
confidential in-company memo into that envelope instead of the invoice you
were supposed to send me ---- you screwed up. And no disclaimer can prevent
me from publishing the info I got out of the envelope addressed to me.
Gerald
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