I have running the sendmail version that cames with suse 7.3 I configure everything i need. all works fine ...but i see something strange in the messages When a mail arrives .. Jan 9 19:19:26 prometheus sendmail[22656]: g09IJJr22411: forward /home/iolistas/.forward: Permission denied It seems it tries to find a file in the home of the user to forward the mail to another ...user? I find this directive in sendmail.cf # Forward file search path #O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward As you can see..i comment the line,and i restart sendmail but it still do the same The mails arrive normally and all seems ok,but i dont understand why it tries to find a .forward file in every home of every user. Any user have any .forward file in his home directory.. TIA
I believe this file does exactly what it says. You can specify how email is potentially forwarded. something like: echo "FMLastname@lbl.gov" >! ~/.forward However, if you run procmail this is unnecessary. ---rhad On 09-Jan-02 Felipe Blanco wrote:
I have running the sendmail version that cames with suse 7.3 I configure everything i need. all works fine ...but i see something strange in the messages
When a mail arrives ..
Jan 9 19:19:26 prometheus sendmail[22656]: g09IJJr22411: forward /home/iolistas/.forward: Permission denied
It seems it tries to find a file in the home of the user to forward the mail to another ...user? I find this directive in sendmail.cf
# Forward file search path #O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward
As you can see..i comment the line,and i restart sendmail but it still do the same The mails arrive normally and all seems ok,but i dont understand why it tries to find a .forward file in every home of every user. Any user have any .forward file in his home directory..
TIA
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Also, the reason it is denying permission is that newer versions of sendmail (8.9 and up i think) will not allow you to use files that are not user specific, i.e.: anything with group read/write access, for security. chmod the directory if you want to use sendmail config files there. On 09-Jan-02 Felipe Blanco wrote:
I have running the sendmail version that cames with suse 7.3 I configure everything i need. all works fine ...but i see something strange in the messages
When a mail arrives ..
Jan 9 19:19:26 prometheus sendmail[22656]: g09IJJr22411: forward /home/iolistas/.forward: Permission denied
It seems it tries to find a file in the home of the user to forward the mail to another ...user? I find this directive in sendmail.cf
# Forward file search path #O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward
As you can see..i comment the line,and i restart sendmail but it still do the same The mails arrive normally and all seems ok,but i dont understand why it tries to find a .forward file in every home of every user. Any user have any .forward file in his home directory..
TIA
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