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Why does Pine require that the mail spool directory have 1777 protections?

April 26, 2017directory mail Pine protections require spool

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Why does Pine require that the mail spool directory have 1777 protections?

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Pine was designed to run without special privileges. This means that in order to create a lockfile in the spool directory, it is necessary to have the spool directory permissions be world-writable.