SUID pop3 / imap4?

[Jeff Bailey]

I got a bug report from someone who has been doing pop3 over ssh with
qpopper before we switched to mailutils.  I can reproduce it easily
enough:

address@hidden:~$ /usr/sbin/pop3d 
Error setting mail group: Operation not permitted
address@hidden:~$ ls -al /usr/sbin/pop3d
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        33832 Feb 21 21:07 /usr/sbin/pop3d

I'm not sure what the Right Thing is here.  I can set the pop3d to be
SUID root, which allows it to work.  I tried making it SUID mail, and
it loads, but it can't get past pam.

I just hate SUID binaries... =)

The followup question is: Should the Makefile install it chmod +s, or
should just the Debian package do it?

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