Re: Sendmail Error

[Scott Kindley <ckindley indy rr com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:25, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:48, Christos E. Chrisostomidis wrote:
> 
> > The permissions in /dev/null are rw-rw-rw-
> 
> Change permissions to rw-r-r, as it doesn't like group/other permissions
> other than read.
> 


I wouldn't advise doing that. Instead to solve this issue of sendmail
comlaining about a groupo writable forward file just add or uncomment
the line in your sendmail.cf file that says

DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileinunsafedirpath,forwardfileinunsafedirpathsafe

The first entry after the = means a .forward file can be read, the
second entry allows the items in the file to be marked as safe for file
and program delivery.

Scott