HP OO Sendmail with Attachment does not work

[Shaik Abdul Gafoor]

HP OO Sendmail with Attachment does not work.

I am trying to send an email through HP-OO with an attachment, but it always throws java.io.FileNotFoundException : /home/handson/TaskList.txt (Permission denied), though I gave 777 rights on this file, still the same error.

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Please try to examine the problem. If your first solution to permission problems is "give 777 rights to everything", your systems will always fail a security audit.

Please run this command and examine the output:
ls -ld /home/handson/TaskList.txt /home/handson /home /

To allow the user running HP-OO to read /home/handson/TaskList.txt, the required minimum permissions are:

- directory access permission (x) on /
- directory access permission (x) on /home
- directory access permission (x) on /home/handson
- file read permission (r) on /home/handson/TaskList.txt

If any of those permissions are not granted to this user, the attempt to read TaskList.txt will fail.

If the user running HP-OO is the same as the user who owns /home/handson (by default, that would be the user named "handson"), you could use "user" permissions.

If it isn't the same user, but both users belong to the same group _and_ the group ownership of the directories/files are set to that group, you can use "group" permissions.

Otherwise, the "other" permissions should be used, with care.

My guess is: the directory /home/handson probably has overly strict permissions. That can be fixed with:

chmod a+x /home/handson

Please fix the permissions of the TaskList.txt file. Having files that are both writeable and executable by anyone is a security risk to your system.

MK

[Shaik Abdul Gafoor]

Thankyou very much.
Directory permissions was an issue.

Appreciate your help.

[Shaik Abdul Gafoor]

The issue was that though the file had permission, the directory holding the file did not.