Date:  Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:26:11 -0500
From:  Robert Fitzpatrick <robert (at mark) webtent.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:08370] Re: .forward: Group writable directory
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <1167323171.2198.6.camel (at mark) columbus.webtent.org>
In-Reply-To:  <200612281618.12843.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
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On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 16:18 +0100, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> > I have just migrated sites from a RaQ 4 to CentOS+BQ and I notice the
> > e-mail forwarding uses the .forward file in the users directory for
> > forwarding mail instead of aliases. This is good, but sendmail doesn't
> > like the fact that user directories are group writeable. Must I manually
> > change the permissions on each user folder to enable this functionality?
> >
> > Dec 28 06:19:51 tpa-hosting sendmail[21666]: kBSBJpp3021665: forward
> > /home/.sites/117/site48/.users/20/robert/.forward: Group writable directory
> 
> Edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Find this line:
> 
> O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath
> 
> Change it to this:
> 
> O DontBlameSendmail=forwardfileingroupwritabledirpath, 
> ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPath, ForwardFileInUnsafeDirPathSafe
> 

Thanks, but the line is a little different than you wrote, do I still
change it to your suggestion above:

[root (at mark) tpa-hosting mail]# grep DontBlameSendmail sendmail.cf
#O DontBlameSendmail=safe

-- 
Robert