Hi,
Sendmail 8.9.3 and up insists that /var/spool/mail not be group writeable
or world writeable. In addition, procmail v3.1x and up insists that any
user's home directories (the one where .procmailrc or .forward would be
located) not be world or group writeable. Sendmail uses procmail as the
local delivery agent by default.
Since you are using sendmail 8.8.8 you can get away with the 1777 setting
but newer versions of sendmail (currently 8.11.x) does not.
best regards
Mike Salim
> > > 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
> > 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).
> I disagree. sendmail does not write to any mailbox, procmail
> does.
> Our /var/spool/mail is drwxrwxrwt
> 1777
> Been that way forever.
> Running Linux 2.0.38, qpop 4.0.3 and procmail 3.15.x
> sendmail 8.8.8
