mail folder vulnerable

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:58:31AM +0300, Radu MOLNAR wrote:
> 
> Hello list
> 
> pine gives me this message:
> [Folder vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection]
> why?
> 
> ls -l in my home dir:
> drwx------   2 taipan  wheel       512 Apr 15 09:26 mail
> 
> an ls -l in /var/mail:
> -rw-------  1 taipan  wheel  11089 Apr 16 09:52 taipan
> 
> is this serious?

I believe the error message is wrong on FreeBSD, and it should not be
there if you use the FreeBSD port.

Kris
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