Hi all !
New mailbase version (net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r9 ~arch) will not change your /var/spool/mail/ permissions anymore.
Anyway since some net-mail devs think that the only right permissions in /var/spool/mail/ are 0775. If you set something different, mailbase will not overwrite them, but it will show you a nice warning:
* Your /var/spool/mail/ directory permissions differ from
* those which mailbase set when you first installed it (0775).
* If you did not change them on purpose, consider running:
*
chmod 0775 /var/spool/mail/
Think that we have good reasons to think 1777 is harmful… do not take the easy way by setting 1777 on /var/spool/mail/; better fix your MTA or switch to Maildir/ (the latter is a much better idea by the way).
Cheers,
Ferdy