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Re: correct settings of /var/mail/user?

From Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: correct settings of /var/mail/user?
Date 2021-07-08 16:50 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2021, 16:27:38 CEST schrieb The Wanderer:
Zhat is strange, as I also can not delete the file /var/mail/myusername 
manually - just because of access rights.

IMO this should be possible also without mutt.

Best

Hans

> $ ls -lhd /var/
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4.0K Jul  4 14:17 /var/
> 
> So this looks OK.
> 
> > ls -la /var | grep mail
> > drwxrwsr-x   2 root mail   4096  8. Jul 16:02 mail
> 
> $ ls -lhd /var/mail/
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4.0K Jul  7 07:03 /var/mail/
> 
> Seems like this one does too.
> 

> $ lh /var/mail/wanderer
> -rw-rw---- 1 wanderer mail 0 Jul  7 07:03 /var/mail/wanderer
> 
> So does this.
> 

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Re: correct settings of /var/mail/user? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-08 16:30 +0200
  Re: correct settings of /var/mail/user? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-08 16:50 +0200
    Re: correct settings of /var/mail/user? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-08 16:50 +0200
      Re: correct settings of /var/mail/user? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-08 18:00 +0200

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