[Alpine-info] Permissions of user mailboxes in /var/mail

[James Pittman]

Mark Crispin:


> "If I understand your question correctly, the answer is yes.  It is OK for 

> mailbox files in /var/mail to be protected 0600 without any specific group 

> setting.  In fact, this is the normal and expected protection for mailbox 

> files for the UW c-client library.



> "Nothing in any version of Pine, Alpine, UW imapd, ipop3d, or any other UW 

> c-client based application has any dependency upon a mailbox file being 

> accessible by group mail.


This being the case, is there any way to stop Alpine whinging about the 
fact that my INBOX doesn't have 1777 protection every time I open it?