[ale] Need help with sendmail

[Wolf Halton]

.forward should be chmodded to 600.

Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
wolfhalton at apache.org
On Oct 24, 2012 5:37 PM, "Matt Hessel" <matt.hessel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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