Qmail Install specific question

[subb3 at ibm.net (Subba Rao)]

One question from someone who is making great progress towards Qmail installation.

After following the instructions in INSTALL.mbox, I have the following results and questions.

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root at caesar:/var/spool/mail# ll
total 10
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     mail         1024 Jul 26 11:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x  15 root     root         1024 Mar 12 14:21 ../
-rw-rw----   1 root     mail         7394 Mar 31 21:42 root
root at caesar:/var/spool/mail# ln -s /var/spool/mail/root ~/Mailbox/root
root at caesar:/var/spool/mail# ll ~/Mailbox
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug 29 07:50 ./
drwx--x---  34 root     root         3072 Aug 29 07:42 ../
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           20 Aug 29 07:50 root -> /var/spool/mail/root
root at caesar:/var/spool/mail# 

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Why are the file permissions of the source file and the linked file different here?
Is that the way it is supposed to be?

Thank you in advance.

Subba Rao
subb3 at ibm.net
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