Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions.

On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	Have you tried the mail directory group writable, group mail, and
> 	making the popper binary setgid mail?

I tried it but I get the same error.
 
> 	Alternatively you should be able to set the sticky bit on
> 	/var/mail, which is at least better than just 777 :)

I had already tried this and it works.  However, I don't understand why it
does not work "as it should."  On the BSDI boxes at my provider, popper is
set up in the inetd.conf to run as root.  The /var/mail directory is 775
with root as the owner and mail the group.  The popper binary is 755.  And
it works fine.  If popper is being runa s root, it should be able to
create a file and access files in a directory that root has write access
to.

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