[BlueOnyx:04667] Re: sendmail .forward.ns1: Group writable directory

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Gerald,

> Crazy, sendmail giving these errors
> 
>  forward /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/60/nanceer/.forward.ns1: Group
> writable directory
> 
> and
> 
> forward /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/60/nanceer/.forward: Group
> writable directory
> 
> This user has no .forward and certainly not a .forward.ns1
> the serer hostname is ns1.
> 
> ideas please.

Your sendmail.cf should (by default) have the following DontBlameSendmail 
options:

O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath, 
ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPath, ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPathSafe

In sendmail.mc terms this translates to:

define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath, 
ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPath, ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPathSafe')dnl

With these settings you won't get that kind of errors. It compensates the 
"special" permissions on user home directories which one finds on BlueOnyx and 
BlueQuartz.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber