sendmail not working

[Robert Huff]

On 1/7/2013 11:48 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
> On 01/07/13 19:45, Robert Huff wrote:

>>      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?

	Done.
	Restarted sendmail (all parts).
	Still no mail processed.


				Robert Huff