[Info-vax] purging another user's mail from a semi-priviledged account

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kjva10$v7h$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <DJLAMz2JY3o3 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 
> 
>> > No group, but system write access.
>> 
>>    That's all MAIL needs.  MAIL uses system access to get write write
>>    access in order to write email into your mail file and/or directory.
> 
> Yes, that occurred to me after posting.
> 
>>    Just try getting email with system write access turned off.
> 
> Write, for DELIVERING mail.  Presumably, typing a command at the MAIL> 
> prompt is not necessarily the same thing.

   The MAIL program could certainly make a distinction.  But file system
   security layers cannot.