[WBEL-users] Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection

Jerry Amundson jerry at pbs.com
Tue Oct 11 16:57:53 CDT 2005


On Tue October 11 2005 15:55, Erick Perez wrote:
> Hi, isnt this supposed to be fixed on the latest imap/ipop3d
>  Im running WBEL3, do i need to update imap or ipop3d?

No, that's a "standard" mail spool error. I don't use ipop3d though, so 
I'm not sure "chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail", like the message says, is 
what you want...

jerry

>  That directory permissions are (/var/spool/mail) :
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 Oct 11 15:49 mail
>  Oct 11 15:47:56 mail ipop3d[2695]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory
> /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
>  Thanks for your suggestions.


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