sendmail question

[Kelli Ward]

Hi all,
I am setting up a sendmail server and am receiving the following error in mail.log

sendmail: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions

I'm not seeing where the error is coming from, but it seems to be keeping my messages stuck in queue.

Thanks for the help.
Kel

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

The error might be seen each time sendmail is restarted. See if the permission of the file 444 (bin:bin). If not change it. Also check /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and make sure
SENDMAIL_SERVER = 1

[Christopher Caldwell]

Try
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

sendmail will tell you which directories it's bummed at.

newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: World writable file

WARNING: writable directory /etc/mail

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Kelli,

Try this link,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=ac03203c06db6d380b/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000049915633

Hope this helps.

Regds