sendmail not working

[Gary Aitken]

On 01/07/13 19:45, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
>     On a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012     amd64
> 
>     I have compiled sendmail following the instructions in the cyrus-sasl port.
>     Sendmail starts, but no mail is processed either way.  /var/log/maillog has this:
> 
> 
> Jan  7 21:07:42 jerusalem sm-mta[69792]: r05KsfdB048780: forward /home/huff/.forward: Group writable directory
> Jan  7 21:07:42 jerusalem sm-mta[69792]: r05KsfdB048780: smtpquit: mailer local exited with exit value 1
> Jan  7 21:07:42 jerusalem sm-mta[69792]: r05KsfdB048780: to=<huff at localhost>, delay=2+05:11:25, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=52831038, relay=local, dsn=4.4.2, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by local
> 
>     The sendmail.cf and submit.cf are attached.
> 
>     Any idea what I've screwed up, or my next step in finding out?

No clue, except the first message might be saying it's not going to honor anything
from .forward because it's in a group writable directory which would be considered
a security issue.  Try making /home/huff group read only?