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7.7 Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?
The mail delivery agent /bin/rmail needs to be able to chown(2) these files.
It can not do so if you have removed the privilege CHOWN (see setprivgrp(1m);
removing CHOWN is recommended to prevent cheating on disk quotas). To get
around this, noting that /bin/rmail runs setgid to group mail, you can grant
privilege CHOWN to group mail only by inserting the line "mail CHOWN" in
/etc/privgroup. The change takes effect on the next reboot, or immediately
if you execute the command "setprivgrp -f /etc/privgroup".
(Thanks to Jim Richardson <jimr@maths.su.oz.au>)
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