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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>> There is a Squirrelmail document recommending that the Squirrelmail
>> data and attachments directories are established outside of the web
>> server's reach. =A0/var is given as an example. =A0They also recommend
>> root:apache 0730 for both directories.
>>
>> This is a little disturbing because my Squirrelmail data directory was
>> created under the webroot as apache:apache 0755 at some point. =A0Would
>> this have been done by Gentoo? =A0Should I file a bug?
>>
>> "Prepare data and attachment directories"
>> http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-3.html
>>
>> - Grant
>
> I think the data-directory is included from upstream and is there to have=
 it
> work when installing it "blindly". Recommendations are not always possibl=
e
> (think hosted environments)

The Squirrelmail list is telling me:

> SquirrelMail doesn't create any directories aside from the ones
> contained in the installation itself.  It doesn't put anything in your
> webroot or anywhere else unless you're using some third party
> installer that does other things.
>
> Maybe you should file a bug report against whatever entity it was that
> provided the package that did that.

Does this sound like a Gentoo bug I should report?

- Grant