In article <gleasokr.735559248@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>, gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason) writes:
|> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
|> 
|> >I grabbed the binary of mailx from the pub/Linux/system/Mail
|> >directory on sunsite and stuck it into place as /bin/mail
|> >(I chickened out and linked /usr/bin/mail and /usr/ucb/mail to
|> >it just to be safe :-) ) and it's great !
|> 
|> >sure looks 'just-like-real-mail' and it reads the same aliases
|> >file as smail...also results in being able to post to moderated
|> >newsgroups.
|> 
|> I just completely reworked my mail system (switched from smail to
|> sendmail); one other change I made was to dump my /bin/mail for
|> mailx.  I have noticed a few nagging problems with it, though...
|> 
|> My mail directory is mode 775, owned by group `mail.'  Mailboxes
|> are owned by the owener, mode 600.  This setup works fine with
|> elm installed nonsetgid, and sendmail (with a slightly modified 
|> lmail program).  But mailx is a little funny.
|> 
|> If mailx is installed as a non setgid program, deleting messages 
|> does not work.  I think this is because it tries to unlink the 
|> mailbox, and does not have permission (since the directory is owned
|> by root.mail).  Instead of complaining about this, it just hangs
|> until you kill it.
|> 
|> If I install it setgid mail, deleting messages works fine, but
|> shell escapes die with `Permission Denied.'  Also, the user's 
|> group is not properly restored when saving messages (they are 
|> saved with group `mail').
|> 
|> I think that mail should not be setgid.  At least I don't think
|> there is any reason that it needs to be, so the only thing that
|> really needs to be fixed for my configuration is the problem
|> with deleting messages.  Other people's configurations may require
|> mail to be setgid (or setuid maybe).
|> 
|> I haven't poked around in the code at all.  Before I do, has 
|> anyone fixed this?  If not, I'll do it myself and send my results
|> off to the maintainer.
|> 
|> Sorry to do nothing but complain... I do like this package a 
|> _lot_ better than the last /bin/mail that I had (at least this
|> one dosen't coredump... at least, not yet :).  Good work!
|> 
|> Kris
|> -- 
|> gleasokr@rintintin.colorado.edu
|>   HARDWARE (noun):  The equipment that makes up a 
|>   computer system, not to be confused with software

Are the sources available too ? Where ?
I am VERY interested !!!

Please mail me,
Andy