{"id":6,"date":"2005-06-09T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-09T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T21:35:11","slug":"mailbase_will_help_you_maintain_sane_per","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/2005\/06\/09\/mailbase_will_help_you_maintain_sane_per\/","title":{"rendered":"mailbase will help you maintain sane permissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all !<\/p>\n<p>New mailbase version (net-mail\/mailbase-0.00-r9 ~arch) will not change your \/var\/spool\/mail\/ permissions anymore.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>nice<\/em> warning:<\/p>\n<pre>  * Your \/var\/spool\/mail\/ directory permissions differ from\r\n  *  those which mailbase set when you first installed it (0775).\r\n  *  If you did not change them on purpose, consider running:\r\n  *\r\n       chmod 0775 \/var\/spool\/mail\/<\/pre>\n<p>Think that we have good reasons to think 1777 is harmful&#8230; 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).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nFerdy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/2005\/06\/09\/mailbase_will_help_you_maintain_sane_per\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">mailbase will help you maintain sane permissions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ferdy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}