[ale] Need help with sendmail

[Matt Hessel]

Looks like you did a chmod on your mail directory in your home folder.

It is complaining that the directory is writeable to anyone
On Oct 24, 2012 12:43 PM, "Chuck Payne" <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> It's been years for me to work with sendmail. I have an issue there I
> don't know if it's sendmail or Google.
>
> A bit of history to help better understand
>
> We use Google for our mail. We have a server in our datacenter that sends
> log watch, nagios alerts, cron job, and so forth. This would then send be
> forward to Google.
>
> Everything was working until the other day, no files have been changed,
> but now I am get the following errors on my server and no messages are
> being sent to Goggle.
>
>
> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13666]: q9OGadCV013666: from=<
> nagios at rosetta.performancematters.com>, size=634, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<201210241454.q9OEsV4h024162 at rosetta.performancematters.com>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=rosetta [10.0.0.7]
> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward.post: World writable directory
> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward: World writable directory
> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: to=<
> chuck.payne at performancematters.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=local, pri=30861, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
>
> It says the message is sent, but what got me worried is this
>
> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward.post: World writable directory
> Oct 24 16:36:39 post sendmail[13667]: q9OGadCV013666: forward
> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne/.forward: World writable directory
>
> We don't have any .forward, this started just a couple days ago. No clue
> why sendmail is saying that
>
> Also I am seeing this alot
>
> Oct 24 16:38:37 post sendmail[14153]: q9OGcbUF014153:
> post.performancematters.com [10.0.0.53] (may be forged) did not issue
> MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
>
> This is also new...
>
> Can someone that is a Sendmail guru help. Please note, production box, can
> change to postfix. Tried that fight already.
>
>
>
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