On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:29, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> that is. and for good reason. it's shared on a samba network with other 
> windows machines because I want to be able to transfer files between all 
> these machines.

The point of jaq's question is that:
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 18:10, Shaun Oliver wrote: 
> Jul  6 18:00:06 hogwarts sm-mta[9843]: i668056o009841: forward 
> /usr/home/shaun_oliver/.forward.hogwarts: Group writable directory

A little googling found a reasonable explanation in the procmail
mini-FAQ at
http://rhols66.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#group-writable

Basically, your fetchmail has been configured to refuse to write to
group-writable directories. Seems the only solution is to twiddle the
config and build yourself a new package from source.

I wonder how slackware source packages work these days. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Pete

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