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mail :
drwxr-xr-x   8 root    wheel     272 Jul 27 22:54 mail

sendmail.cf :
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  57504 Jul 14  2002 sendmail.cf


I don't know what the Fw prefix does but I looked into 
/etc/mail/local-host-names and it is empty.

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 10:21 PM, Dax Eckenberg wrote:

>> Changed to  MAILSERVER=-YES-"
>>
>> % /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail start
>> Starting mail services
>> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 93: fileclass: cannot open
>> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
>>
>> Above is  the message before and after reboot
>> line 96 is as follows (ignore <--) :
>>
>> Cwlocalhost
>> # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
>> Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names    <-- 96
>>
>
> try turning off group write for the /etc/mail directory
>
> # chmod g-w /etc/mail
>


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