From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 22 09:41:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16388 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16380 Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:41:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199604221641.JAA16380@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199604220320.XAA08263@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 21, 96 11:20:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charles Henrich wrote: > > Explain to me how exactly sendmail is supposed to read .forward's out of > peoples directories, when it apparently runs as daemon? I have had zero luck > with this unless the directories are world read, as well as the .forward, this > is unusual! What am I missing here? check the permissions on your sendmail. sendmail needs to run as root 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 -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/