Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 23:15:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <199604222115.XAA02487@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199604221646.MAA10587@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 22, 96 12:46:09 pm
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> > for several reasons. it needs to read people's .forward file > > regardless of the permissions. it needs to append to people's > > mailboxes. it needs to bind port 25. any others? > > > > -r-sr-sr-x 3 root kmem 245760 Mar 10 18:25 /usr/sbin/sendmail > > Those are the permissions on my sendmail. It just doesnt work! This is on a > 2.1R system. > > ---- > -r-sr-sr-x 3 root kmem 180224 Nov 16 04:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail* > > # ls -ld /root > 2 drwx------ 8 root wheel 512 Apr 21 23:16 /root/ > > # more /root/.forward > henrich > ---- > > If I send mail to root@mymachine, it goes to /var/mail/root, instead of being > forwarded. root's homedir is /root... This makes no sense! > > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu What does your sendmail.cf look like for: # Forward file search path #OJ/var/forward/$u:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward Mine was like this: commented out. I also think sendmail can be compiled to not do .forwards (for security reasons). Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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