On Friday, 10 October 2003 at 17:16, Nathan Saper wrote: > > But I believe the warning should be taken seriously. I am assuming you > > are using UW-IMAP and that server can't properly lock the inbox. Under > > the wrong circumstances you could suffer lost mail or a corrupted > > mailbox. You should try to have the problem fixed. > > I've talked to the tech support people at my IMAP provider, and they're > convinced that 1777 is a security risk. I don't know what permissions they > have set now; they won't tell me. It appears I'll just have to live with it > for now. I think uw-imap comes with a helper program called mlock that you can use if you don't want to set the spool to 1777.
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