On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Only solution for now is to set /var/mail world-writable and sticky.
Debian policy doesn't like that.
Another way would be to use more privileged process for handling lock files. Some programs use setuid or setgid binary for that. I was thinking that I'd let imap process request the locks from master process. That would also allow overriding stale lock files created by other users with shared mailboxes.
I think this is a better idea overall. It would reduce the amount of code which needed elevated privileges and like you said, allow stale lock files to be overriden. I used to have that problem with uw-imap.
In the meantime, could you add something to the documentation about this issue?
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