On July 17, 2000 at 17:12, Lee Howard wrote:
> I'd like to get rid of that user altogether without dumping the list and
> able to continue receiving mail as always. I have thought about an alias,
> such as mailing lists like SmartList use, and have tried adding something
> like this to aliases:
>
> faxguy: "| mhonarc -outdir /home/httpd/html/lists -add"
>
> But however I try it, the mail always bounces with this error:
>
> ERROR: "/home/httpd/html/lists" is not writable
> 554 "| mhonarc -outdir /home/httpd/html/lists -add"... unknown mailer error 2
The problem has to do with file permissions. When invoked via a user's
.forward file, mhonarc runs with the uid of the user. When invoked from
a sendmail alias, mhonarc runs under a different uid, like "daemon".
You need to change the ownership of /home/httpd/html/lists (and all
files under it) to the uid sendmail runs external programs as.
--ewh
