Be careful, if you recompile with these patches. You should know what you do before changing the email system... I am running now a Linux system that doesn't have any "mail" group. No email program ist sgid-mail anymore. The spool dir has perm 1777 like /tmp. Most Linux distributions have sgid "mail" email-readers and only group "mail" can write to /var/spool/mail. Some of those sgid-mail programs have security holes. Florian La Roche florian@suse.de florian@knorke.saar.de