Uwe,
> Note that my knowledge of sendmail internals is quite limited. I wish
> it to stay that way.
My sentiments exactly.
> btw: did you have netrape or emacs or any other mail reading program
> running? If yes that one might have "stored" the missing mails somewhere.
Nope.
> > Feb 29 16:43:17 thecanyons sendmail[7461]: QAA07457: forward
>/home/guest/.forward.thecanyons: World writable directory
> > Feb 29 16:43:17 thecanyons sendmail[7461]: QAA07457: forward /home/guest/.forward:
>World writable directory
>
> This is obviously caused by the delivery of messages fetchmail retrieved
> from the socialites account at pop.slkc.uswest.net. These two messages
> cannot be delivered until the permission problem on ~guest has been
> fixed (hey, look, the sendmail people do something _right_).
> "chmod 700 ~guest ; chown guest ~guest" is a first fix, but if it was
> a multi user machine you might be in trouble now.
The odd thing is that these files don't even exist. Sendmail must presume
their existence and then do so badly.
I am grateful for your response and I really do realize this is a qmail forum.
I'll just keep my fingers crossed and hope it doesn't happen again.
Tom
