On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:29:41 -0400,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote about Re: "cannot lock
mailbox"...:
> 
> Peter Seebach writes:
> > Was there ever a fix to the problem where you couldn't lock a mailbox
> > unless /var/mail was 777 or 1777?
> 
> I think we need to totally rethink the /var/mail concept, frankly...

I don't think so, I have

drwxrwxr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Aug 18 20:13 /var/mail

and "flock only" elm -- it works flawlessly and AFAIK it is secure.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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