[FIXED] Re: set up a forward

[Berna Massingill]

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