On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 11:21, Hongwei Li wrote: > I installed the new pine 4.60. When I try a test account's pine, the > warning message is gone. Thanks! > > However, the system mail log (not message log) shows warning: > > Jun 28 11:13:03 morpheus ipop3d[1183]: pop3 service init from 128.252.85.189 > Jun 28 11:13:03 morpheus ipop3d[1183]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory > /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection > > after each pop3 user logs in (Outlook Express, etc.), but it seems no > warning message after squirrelmail user logs in. > > Anything else is wrong? or should be changed. I have never touched the > pop3 service, but just set iptables and open the port for it. > > Thanks! > > Hongwei > My FC2 box has default permissions and does not log these messages drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jun 28 11:46 /var/spool/mail The contents of /var/spool/mail are (for each user) -rw-rw---- 1 user mail 7074 Jun 28 11:58 user > > Leave the permissions as they are! Use the pine 4.60 RPM by Dag Wieers > > which is made for FC1 and FC2 and contains some patches to cover locking > > issues. > > > > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/pine/ > > > > Alexander > > > > >
