sendmail error message

[Chris Harris]

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

[Helen French]

Hi Chris,

This may help you:

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

Shiju

[Christopher Caldwell · Accepted solution]

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.

[Mark Greene_1]

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