> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:45:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "A. M. Salim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Usually its 1777, again it should be the same as
> > /var/spool/mail
>
> Please note that this setting will make sendmail very unhappy. Sendmail
> does not like any dir to be group or world writeable. You will need to
I think that this should be.... Sendmail does not like any dir to be
group or world writeable when sendmail is expected to execute a program
from that directory.
/var/mail (AKA /var/spool/mail in BSD land) on almost *every* system
I've seen has had permissions of 1777. I'm running the pop-drop dir
with 1777 permisisons (I know, I know! Popper uses this directory and
not sendmail...)
> play with both ownership and group to keep both sendmail and Qpopper
> happy. Or you will need to "force" sendmail to be happy with these
> settings (not advised and painful to do it).
The 'force' here comes from the permissions on things like
~user/.forward. If this file does not have 644 permissions, sendmail
will refuse to send to it and complains bitterly. If you want sendmail
to use the 664 or 666 permissions, you'll have to set
"O DontBlameSendmail=Safe" in your sendmail.cf to tell sendmail that you
want to over-ride the file safty checks.
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
>
> best regards
> Mike
>
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