> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:38:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "A. M. Salim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 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
This Sendmail behaviour has got to be because of options set at compile
time - or set in your sendmail.cf... Probably the latter...
On our internal mail server, until just a few minutes ago, /var/mail
was set to 777 (no longer) and sendmail 8.10.1 has been happily
running since early March... Most of our other mail hosts are 8.9.3
and use the same permissions on /var/mail...
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
> 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
>
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