topic sendmail error message in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail error message

Chris Harris — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:10:28 GMT

i'm recieving the following message when attempting to use sendmail with an alias that reads addresses from a file.

":include:/usr/local/apache/emailheaders/dailystats.list"... Cannot open /usr/lo
cal/apache/emailheaders/dailystats.list: Group writable directory
dailystats... aliasing/forwarding loop broken

what is this telling me?

thanks in advance,

chris

Re: sendmail error message

Helen French — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:14:07 GMT

Hi Chris,

This may help you:

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=4da279c2105e6acbf1/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000057370816

Shiju

Re: sendmail error message

Christopher Caldwell — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:17:34 GMT

Remove group write permissions on each directory from root to the target file. Also make sure the target file doesn't have group write permissions.

Re: sendmail error message

Mark Greene_1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:55 GMT

If you absolutly have to have group writable permissions on the directory in question, set the "dontblamesendmail" option in the sendmail.cf file:

DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe

but be sure to read the man page for sendmail so you understand the affects of setting this.

HTH
mark