Max Pyziur wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Max Pyziur wrote: >>> >>> The alpine mail rpm indicates that it comes packaged with configuration >>> files (/etc/pine*conf*). However, they aren't there. Possible? >>> >>> Also, how did you get rid of the annoying alpine bug: a message that >>> keeps flashing - [Folder vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have >>> 1777 protection]? >>> >> I *really* think you ought to ask in those repos, or alpine's mailing >> list. What's bothering me is it asserting that the "folder vulnerable", >> then saying that it needs to be world-read/writeable; ours are all 775. > > Ok, then. > > I find the "users" list on fedoraproject challenging. Heh, heh. We can be touchy, here, too... but when someone comes in who's actually read manpages, and googled, before coming here - in other words, they don't expect us to do their jobs, just help them do it, we usually try to help. > > The stated vulnerability is a known bug in alpine, and it has been there > for a long time. Many lists have complaints about it, but it doesn't seem > to get the attention of the developers/maintainers. Oh. Right. Fixing bugs isn't "sexy", esp. when it's an annoying invalid message. I wish upstream would do something about that annoying complaint in my logfiles about "hung task" that tells me how to turn it off.... > > Likewise, ours are set to 775, inboxes set to 600 (that way dovecot > doesn't complain). Sounds good to me. > > Thank you for your help. Sorry I couldn't help more. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos