F8 & F9 (i386/i686): Problems with sendmail & dovecot

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Tue Aug 19 21:55:58 UTC 2008


Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>
>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> [snip!]
> Since nobody has responded, I thought to place here the fix for the 
> the sendmail
> groupwritable claims for the two file: local-host-names and 
> trusted-users as follows:
>
> 1) Edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file and change:
>
>    a) Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names ==> 
> Fw-o<space>/etc/mail/local-host-names
>    b) Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users ==> Fw-o<space>/etc/mail/trusted-users
        My mistake.  Here is the correct fix for above:
        b) Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users ==> Ft-o<space>/etc/mail/trusted-users
>
>    replace <space> for actual space character!
>
> NOTE: Your /etc/mail permissions are fine - no permissions changes are 
> required at all
>               for the files nor the directories or it's parents.  This 
> is a change by sendmail.org
>               I think - dunno WHY, but there it is.
>
> As for Spamassasin and ClamAV - there is no known fix for this that I 
> know of - does
> anyone know?  Has *anyone* gotten these to work?  Why hasn't anyone 
> said anything
> about this anywhere that I know of?  I got this above information from 
> a blog site of all
> places so there has been problems reported and a fix - but not for 
> Spamassasin or ClamAv
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>




More information about the fedora-list mailing list