[bug-mailutils] mailbox get corrupted

[Sergey V. Spiridonov]

Hi,

I use mailutils 20020409-1 from Debian unstable. Together with exim4 
Exim version 4.24 #1 built 05-Nov-2003 13:28:28.

1. mail.local comes without sticky bit in Debian. Is it normal? I failed 
to make it working without setting

chmod u+s /usr/lib/mailutils/mail.local

AFAI understood, exim4 is running from mail user, so mail.local is 
started  from this user also. Then it tries to become another user. 
Without sticky bit I got following error message in /var/log/mail.err:

mail.local[17300]: setreuid(0, 1000): Operation not permitted (r=1000, 
e=1000)

With sticky bit everything works O.K., but unsecure.


2. The mailbox becomes corrupted over a time. What can be the reason? Is 
it wrong configuration or a bug?

I configured mail.local, so that it delivers mail to /var/mail/<user> 
mailbox. I use imap4d to access my mailbox (sometimes I access my 
mailbox simultaneously from two machines).

I think both of mail.local and imap4d do locking, but it seems to be not 
working.

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Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov

A: No
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