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Re: Migrating mail from Win95 to WinXP


On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:13:40AM -0400, Charles Krug wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:15:45PM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> > > What should the permissions be?  I won't be able to verify them until
> > > I'm home later tonight.
> > 
> > You should have read/write access to them of course. The difference
> > between 95 and XP are the acl's and how cygwin uses them.
> >  
> 
> Okay, I took a look at the procmail log and noticed two things.
> 
> First, it didn't like that $HOME/.procmailrc was world-writable.  Fixed
> with a chmod 644.
> 
> Second, it fails when it tries to lock the mailboxes and winds up
> putting everything in the default mailbox.
> 
> The permissions on my mail directory is drwxrwxrwx, whereas here it's
> just -rw------- (Under Linux).

Which userId does procmail use ? Your's or another ? Which user an group
belongs your Maildir to ?
 
Gruss Olaf Föllinger

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Olaf Föllinger
Berater 
S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG


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