On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:03:22PM -0500, Patrick Grantham (at work) wrote:
> Now I when an email is received I not the following warning:
> Dec 12 14:40:57 server1 sendmail[13579]: gBCJevQ13579:
> from=<user@nonWorkingSite.com>, size=14648, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<01cd01c2a217$4fa92d70$4401a8c0@patrick>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
> relay=[x.x.x.x]
> Dec 12 14:40:57 server1 sendmail[13583]: gBCJevQ13579: forward
> /home/lyngai/.forward.server1+: Group writable directory
> Dec 12 14:40:57 server1 sendmail[13583]: gBCJevQ13579: forward
> /home/lyngai/.forward+: Group writable directory
> Dec 12 14:40:57 server1 sendmail[13583]: gBCJevQ13579: forward
> /home/lyngai/.forward.server1: Group writable directory
> Dec 12 14:40:58 server1 sendmail[13583]: gBCJevQ13579: forward
> /home/lyngai/.forward: Group writable directory
> Dec 12 14:40:58 server1 procmail[13584]: Enforcing stricter permissions on
> "/var/spool/mail/lyngai"
>
> By all observations, incoming emails make it to the mailbox, but I am
> concerned about these just these warnings. Though not seen before the
> procmail is of not much concern at this point. Even after I change the
> permissions of /home/lyngai with chmod -R g-rwx and chmod -R o-rwx (just to
> be sure), the warnings still appear. What are your thoughts?
There is a "Don't blame sendmail" configuration option that causes
sendmail to be a little more lenient on some of the permissions
of directories and files that it has to deal with.
That particular setting has many different options, all of which are
explained here:
http://www.sendmail.org/tips/DontBlameSendmail.html
This may be what you're looking for...
Cheers!
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