On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:55:09AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 08:54, Daniel Vogel wrote: >> >> > By some reason, wich i dont have the time to check .forward file >> > didn't work, neither as local ser or as root. The message on maillog >> > was: >> > >> > Oct 2 10:54:16 copernico sendmail[17237]: j92EsFfN017236: forward >> > /home/daniel/.forward: Group writable file >> >> It doesn't take much time to check that reason. The log >> record you included explains it. chmod g-w .forward would >> fix it. The more common reason for .forward's failing, though, >> is that the default permissions on home directories don't let >> sendmail read anything under them. >> What we have observed (on a mailserver running FC3, and with earlier releases), is that something like this happens not only if .forward is group-writable, but also if any of the directories in the path to it are group-writable (/home or /home/daniel here). There is a sendmail configuration option to change this behavior (with regard to directories); look for DONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL in sendmail.mc. FYI, as they say. -- blm
