Muhep Guest account (guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA) wrote:
: [...]
: [smail seems to give read permissions to the world when creating a  
: mailbox, so when you create a new account you should touch the mailbox and  
: chmod it to 600 in the adduser script (like mine does!)]

check the umask of the user account: smail will set 600 if the umask is
22. (nb. this umask would normally set permisions 644 on a plain file).

        Tony.

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