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| -rw-r--r-- | archivemail.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index 5baa89d..5dd063f 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "03 March 2009" "SP" "" +.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "30 July 2010" "SP" "" .SH NAME archivemail \- archive and compress your old email @@ -40,13 +40,6 @@ delimiter. Substitute '\fBimap\fR\&' with '\fBimaps\fR\&', and \fBarchivemail\fR will establish a secure SSL connection. See below for more \fBIMAP\fR peculiarities. -.PP -\fBarchivemail\fR has some support for being run as the root user on -user mailboxes. When running as root, it will \fBseteuid\fR(2) to the owner of the -mailbox it is reading, creating any archive files as that user. -\fBWarning:\fR -this automatic seteuid feature is insecure and deprecated. -It will be removed from later versions of \fBarchivemail\fR\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \fB -d \fINUM\fB, --days=\fINUM\fB\fR @@ -259,6 +252,7 @@ When reading an \fBmbox\fR-format mailbox, \fBarchivemail\fR will create a lockfile with the extension \fI\&.lock\fR so that procmail will not deliver to the mailbox while it is being processed. It will also create an advisory lock on the mailbox using \fBlockf\fR(2)\&. +The archive is locked in the same way when it is updated. \fBarchivemail\fR will also complain and abort if a 3rd-party modifies the mailbox while it is being read. .PP |