[5091] in RedHat Linux List
Re: sendmail ->qmail problems, help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Mitchell)
Mon Nov 18 23:21:10 1996
Date: 19 Nov 1996 04:17:29 -0000
From: John Mitchell <johnm@non.net>
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>>>>> "John" == John Mitchell <johnm@non.net> writes:
>>>>> "mmalecha" == mmalecha <mmalecha@utmem1.utmem.edu> writes:
> [....]
>> Now I am able to send mail to remote domains, but have a problem with
>> sending it to the localhost. Entries in /var/log/maillog say:
>> "qmail: delivery 1 deferred:
>> Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/"
>> and nothing gets delivered to local mailbox.
> That's because your home directory is group writable. :-) QMail is
> particularly paranoid about security. Make your home NOT group (or other
> of course :-) writable.
Doh! I forgot to mention that if you build qmail from the sources then you
can:
<<<<
#define ALIAS_PATERNALISM 002 /* stat bits not allowed in ~ and ~/.qmail */
>>>>
in the conf-unusual.h file so that it (i.e., group writability) doesn't
matter to qmail.
Go wild,
John
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