Re: mail

[Jim Mock]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 07:21  PM, Dax Eckenberg wrote:

Changed to  MAILSERVER=-YES-"

% /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail start
Starting mail services
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 93: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory

Above is  the message before and after reboot
line 96 is as follows (ignore <--) :

Cwlocalhost
# file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names    <-- 96

try turning off group write for the /etc/mail directory

# chmod g-w /etc/mail

That won't fix it. On OS X systems, / is group writable for various reasons. The easiest workaround is to add this to the .mc file you use to generate sendmail.cf:

define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupWritableDirPathSafe')

There are a *ton* of web sites that cover getting sendmail on OS X to work properly. Search google. Also, there's a decent article on O'Reilly's Mac Dev Center about it.

- jim

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jim mock <mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org> [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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