Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!alt@sri-tsca From: alt%sri-tsca@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: none Message-ID: <17220@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 19:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17220 Posted: Mon Mar 5 19:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:17:39 EST Lines: 14 > Oh, good grief. Don't make /usr/spool/mail publicly writable: > > $ mv /usr/spool/mail/me /usr/spool/mail/me.keep > $ mv /usr/spool/mail/you /usr/spool/mail/me > $ mail ... Better than that, you can use 'mail -u user'. An undocumented (I think) Berkeley mail option. This lets you pretend that you are that user, and play with the mail however you want. The only real problem is that it writes undeleted read mail into your mbox rather than his. I have often thought that it is a pretty silly option to have... Howard.