Description of problem: When I retrieve mail using the POP3 server in fedora-1's new imap package, I get "Mailbox vulnerable" messages in /var/log/maillog: Nov 8 23:11:54 host ipop3d[1172]: pop3 service init from 12.34.56.78 Nov 8 23:11:54 host ipop3d[1172]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection Nov 8 23:11:54 host ipop3d[1172]: Login user=username host= [12.34.56.78] nmsgs=0/0 Nov 8 23:11:54 host ipop3d[1172]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection Nov 8 23:11:54 host ipop3d[1172]: Logout user=username host= [12.34.56.78] nmsgs=0 ndele=0 Problem did not exist in Red Hat Linux 9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): imap-2000d-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install imap-2000d-3 2. Enable POP3 service by editing /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3, removing "disable=yes", and reloading xinetd 3. Send mail to a user on the system 4. Retrieve that mail using POP3 5. Check /var/log/maillog Additional info: My guess is that the directory doesn't really need 1777 permissions; imap may just be built with the wrong options. An old Red Hat Linux release from several years ago (6.0 maybe; I'm not sure) gave this same error, and it got fixed without changing the permissions on the directory.
Whoops, got the release number wrong. Should be: imap-2002d-3
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103479 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.