Owner and permissions of /var/mail/me

[Carthik Sharma]

On 9/1/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:51:23AM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > I deleted the /var/mail/carthik (my username is carthik) file by 
> mistake. If I
> > were to create the file again, what should the permissions be, and who 
> should
> > be owner of that file?
> 
> I asked the same question of my Linux mentor a week or so
> ago, after three or four years of my using Linux. The answer
> should have occurred to me: drop to a command line and do
> 
> echo test | mail carthik


This doesn't seem to be working for me - i already try sending mail from 
mutt to "carthik" and now i tried the command above, which does not create a 
file in /var/mail/ ? I am lost :)


> Does anyone have a link to a postfix + fetchmail + procmail + mutt + gnupg 
> +
> > spamassassin story or webpage to share?
> 
> Kind of a big question, isn't it? I use postfix, fetchmail,
> procmail, mutt, gnupg and spamassassin. What do you want to
> know? 


The questions I have relate to how one "feeds" the other. In other words, I 
am sure fetchmail fetches remote mail and forwards it to postfix. Postfix 
then calls procmail? Is that how it works? i would love to learn how mail 
passes through these tools on the way in, and on the way out, and where 
spamassassin figures in. Do you have a recipe for spamassassin filtering 
defined in procmail? How do all these tools come together? I found a few 
howtos online, and can put two and two together to figure out how things 
happen - but after the accidental /var/mail/carthik deletion I think 
prior-knowledge can't hurt :)

> Mutt: I am the mutt mastah. :-) Ask any questions you'd
> like. I think my favorite mutt hack is this script:
> 
> http://laniels.org/scripts/gpg_get_keys.pl.txt


Cool! Thanks, will make a note of this, for sure... 

> 
> Ask any questions you might have. I find all of this stuff
> fun.


Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the help :)

Carthik.
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