sendmail not working

[weldon at excelsusphoto.com]

On 08.01.2013 07:39, Robert Huff wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Are you forwarding to an email address (full address with @ sign or 
just a local account)?
If to a local account, is this account new (no email ever)?  If so, 
what is the mode of the directory in which local mbox's are stored?