mail folder vulnerable

[Radu MOLNAR]

yes, i'm using pine from ports

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Radu Molnar
Babes-Bolyai Comunication Center
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:58:31AM +0300, Radu MOLNAR wrote:
> >
> > Hello list
> >
> > pine gives me this message:
> > [Folder vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection]
> > why?
> >
> > ls -l in my home dir:
> > drwx------   2 taipan  wheel       512 Apr 15 09:26 mail
> >
> > an ls -l in /var/mail:
> > -rw-------  1 taipan  wheel  11089 Apr 16 09:52 taipan
> >
> > is this serious?
>
> I believe the error message is wrong on FreeBSD, and it should not be
> there if you use the FreeBSD port.
>
> Kris
>