Re: deferring mails

[Charles Cazabon <qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Payal Rathod <payal-dated-1091547856.acagmjde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:10:18AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Yes, djb allowed for exactly this.  qmail-local will defer mail if your
> > home directory is sticky (`man chmod`).
> 
> I am scared will other programs suffer if I made my home directory sticky?

No.  Virtually all programs don't care about the sticky bit.  The OS changes
its behaviour slightly regarding the group ID on SYSV-type Unices when
creating files in a directory with the sticky bit set, that's all.

> Actually, I am trying to work around with pymsgauth and need to
> play with dot-qmail files and don't want any mails to be missed.

You can play around with this by setting up a (temporary) additional user
account specifically for this purpose, or sandbox it into a smaller part of
your email namespace by using a prefix (like payal-testing-<foo>), or using
other tricks.

Charles
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