Re: mail

[Kenneth Tucker]

mail :
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Jul 27 22:54 mail

sendmail.cf :
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 57504 Jul 14 2002 sendmail.cf


I don't know what the Fw prefix does but I looked into /etc/mail/local-host-names and it is empty.

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 10:21 PM, Dax Eckenberg wrote:

Changed to  MAILSERVER=-YES-"

% /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail start
Starting mail services
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 93: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory

Above is  the message before and after reboot
line 96 is as follows (ignore <--) :

Cwlocalhost
# file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names    <-- 96

try turning off group write for the /etc/mail directory

# chmod g-w /etc/mail

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